1. UNIT 5 PRACTICE TEST Write the letter of the answer YOU think is correct on your marker board and hold it up in front of you. Keep a tally down at the bottom of your board of how many you get wrong.

2.  1. Which of the following sentences does NOT contain a pronoun?  A. The great Greek and Latin poets created myths.  B. Homer was the first Greek poet who created the myths.  C. His stories were retold or invented by the Latin poet Ovid.  D. He put these myths into a collection called Metamorphoses.

3. Read the following sentences then answer questions 2 and 3. Read the following sentences then answer questions 2 and 3. Ovid probably influenced Western literature than any other ancient writer. Writers like Chaucer and Shakespeare show traces of him in their work.  2. Which of the following is the antecedent of the pronoun him?  A. Ovid  B. Writers  C. Chaucer  D. Shakespeare

4. Read the following sentences then answer questions 2 and 3. Read the following sentences then answer questions 2 and 3. Ovid probably influenced Western literature than any other ancient writer. Writers like Chaucer and Shakespeare show traces of him in their work.  3. Which of the following is the antecedent of the pronoun their?  A. Ovid  B. Writers  C. Chaucer  D. Shakespeare

5.  4. Which of the following sentences is written correctly?  A. Me love to read about mythology.  B. The stories of the gods is fascinating to I.  C. Me and my sister enjoy writing our own myths.  D. My sister said she is ready to write more.

6.  5. Which of the following sentences is written correctly?  A. The Titans were the first gods of us universe.  B. The Titan Cronus was dethroned by their son, Zeus.  C. Zeus became the ruler of all the gods and ruled from his throne on Mount Olympus.  D. The Titans were punished or forced into exile by Zeus and her brothers.

7.  6. Which of the following sentences is written correctly?  A. Zeus and his brothers, Poseidon and Hades, are the three major gods.  B. Zeus’ sisters and some of her children make up the other important gods.  C. There are many minor gods, and many stories have been told about him.  D. Her stories also included many other characters and regular people.

8.  7. Which of the following sentences is written correctly?  A. I enjoys reading myths like “The Golden Touch.”  B. It are about a greedy man named King Midas.  C. Dionysus grants him a wish, and he wishes to be able to turn things to gold with one touch.  D. In the end, he ask for the gift to be taken back.

9.  8. Which of the following sentences is written correctly?  A. “The Weaving Contest” is another Greek myth I likes.  B. It is about a peasant who could weave better than the goddess of weaving herself.  C. She challenge the goddess Athena to a weaving contest.  D. Athena loses, so she turn the peasant Arachne into the first spider.

10.  9. Which of the following sentences is written correctly?  A. They’re many words in our language that are derived from Greek.  B. Its surprising to learn that cereal comes from Ceres, the goddess of grain.  C. Your also smart if you knew morphine comes from Morpheus, god of dreams.  D. Who’s ever been called a narcissist? That comes from Narcissus, who fell in love with his own reflection.

11.  10. Which of the following sentences is written correctly?  A. Your parents probably never told you where the name Olympics comes from.  B. It comes from Mount Olympus. Its the home of the major gods and goddesses.  C. Who’s parents told them why we call rainbow-like displays of colors iridescent?  D. Their called that because of the goddess Iris, the goddess of the rainbow.

12.  11. Which of the following sentences does NOT contain an indefinite pronoun?  A. Everyone loves to read stories.  B. My teacher made me write my own myth one time.  C. I didn’t tell anyone, but I really enjoyed writing it.  D. Each of us had to tell a creation story.

13.  12. Which of the following sentences is written correctly?  A. Many tells how something came to be.  B. One were about why cats purr.  C. None tell why cats were made.  D. Someone write about how the turtle got its shell.

14.  13. Which of the following sentences uses a demonstrative pronoun?  A. This Greek myth uses a story of the gods to explain the seasons.  B. Hades kidnapped Demeter’s daughter and wanted to marry her.  C. Because Demeter was the goddess of grain, nothing in the land grew until this daughter returned to her.  D. That was the beginning of winter.

15.  14. Which of the following sentences uses a demonstrative pronoun?  A. Hades wanted to keep Persephone, Demeter’s daughter, with him in the underworld.  B. Persephone wanted to leave that place, so Hades finally agreed.  C. However, he made her eat a pomegranate before she left.  D. This meant that she had to return every six months to live in the underworld with Hades, and that causes the change in the seasons.

16.  15. Which of the following sentences uses a reflexive pronoun correctly?  A. The Greeks even have a myth about a nymph named Echo, which explains the sound of the echo.  B. Echo angered Hera, Zeus’ wife, and so Hera cursed Echo to only repeat the last lines of what she themself hears.  C. Echo falls in love with a boy named Narcissus, who was only in love with himself.  D. After Narcissus felt hisself dying, Echo faded away from grief until only her voice was left.

17.  16. Which of the following sentences uses an interrogative pronoun INCORRECTLY?  A. Who has heard of the Cyclops who tends a flock of sheep?  B. Do you know whom killed the Minotaur?  C. What Harry Potter book had the basilisk in it?  D. Which creature would you rather ride, a Hippogriff or a Pegasus?

18.  17. Which of the following sentences uses an interrogative pronoun INCORRECTLY?  A. Whose son was it that becomes Cupid?  B. Who was the Greek god of the sea?  C. Do you know to who Perseus gives the shield?  D. Whom do you ask for when you need to send a message?

19.  18. Which of the following sentences uses a relative pronoun correctly?  A. Athene is the goddess who turns Medusa’s hair into snakes.  B. A Hippocampus is a huge creature which pulls the chariot of Poseidon.  C. Daedalus is the man whom created Minos’s labyrinth.  D. Centaurs are famous mythological creatures, that are half-human and half- horse.

20.  19. Which of the following sentences uses a relative pronoun correctly?  A. Satyrs are woodland creatures whom are human down to the waist.  B. It looks much different from their bottom half, that is made up of hairy legs and hooves.  C. The god who they follow is called Pan; he plays pipes.  D. Satyrs are gentile creatures that are also called fauns.

21.  20. Which of the following sentences uses a relative pronoun INCORRECTLY?  A. Whoever heard of the hero Hercules?  B. Hercules is the half-mortal son of Zeus whom killed many monsters.  C. Alcyoneus was a Gigante whom Hercules killed.  D. Hercules impressed whomever he met with his tales of heroism.