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Midterm Exam
Directions: Choose the best answer to the following questions about the literature that we have
read so far.
1. Of what city is Oedipus king?
a. Ithaca
b. Troy
c. Thebes
d. Corinth
2. Why did the people of the city think
that Oedipus could save them?
a. He had defeated the army that
enslaved the people
b. He slew a dragon
c. He was friends with the gods
d. He had solved the riddle of the
Sphinx
3. What did the oracle of Apollo say was
wrong with Oedipus city?
a. Jocasta was being unfaithful
b. The people were sinful
c. The murderer of Laius was still
alive and thriving in the city
d. King Polybus was dying
4. Who was Tiresias?
a. A blind prophet
b. An oracle of Apollo
c. One of Laius shepherds
d. Oedipus son
5. What did Tiresias reveal to Oedipus?
a. That Oedipus was the murderer
of Laius
b. That he would find out terrible
things about his family
c. That he didnt know who his
parents are
d. All of the above
6. True or False: Oedipus thought that
Creon was plotting with Tiresias to
take over his kingdom.
7. Why was Oedipus nervous when
Jocasta mentioned that Laius was

killed at a place where three highways

meet?
a. Because he heard that the
Sphinx had killed someone
there
b. Because he remembered that
he had killed a group of men
there
c. Because he knew that place
was haunted
d. Because he had seen a murder
take place there
8. Why was Oedipus relieved when he
heard that his father, King Polybus of
Corinth, was dead?
a. He knew he was safe from the
prophecy
b. He knew that his father was
suffering from an illness
c. He could now become king of
Corinth
d. He could leave the city of
Thebes
9. What did the shepherds reveal? Who
were Oedipus true parents?
a. Polybus and Penelope
b. Jocasta and Polybus
c. Polybus and Merope
d. Jocasta and Laius
10.What did Jocasta do when she realized
the truth?
a. She banished herself
b. She hung herself
c. She stabbed herself
d. She took her children and ran
11.Why was Oedipus concerned about his
daughters?
a. They were women in a maledriven society
b. They were children of incest
c. They couldnt get husbands

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d. All of the above
a. Calypso
b. Aphrodite
c. Hera
d. Circe
12.True or False: Oedipus made Creon
21.True or False: Scylla is the whirlpool
promise to take care of his daughters.
and Charybdis is the sea monster.
13.Who wrote The Odyssey?
a. Sophocles
22.How many men does Scylla eat?
b. Homer
a. 5
c. Aristotle
b. 6
d. Shakespeare
c. 12
d. 2
14.Of what city is Odysseus king?
a. Ithaca
23.Where did Odysseus go while his men
b. Thebes
ate the forbidden cattle?
c. Troy
a. To pray and sleep
d. Corinth
b. To eat on the ship
c. To talk to Tiresias
15.Where are Odysseus and his men
d. To offer sacrifices to the gods
traveling from?
a. A 10-year long war
24.Who did the forbidden cattle belong
b. A war with Troy
to?
c. A royal wedding
a. Zeus
d. Both a and b
b. Hermes
c. Helios
16.True or False: The Cyclopes grew crops
d. Hades
for a living.
25.What ultimately destroyed Odysseus
17.What does Odysseus first tell that
ship and killed all of his men?
Cyclops that his name is?
a. Helios burning sun rays
a. NoOne
b. Zeus lightning bolt as
b. Somebhdy
punishment for eating the cattle
c. Nohbdy
c. Poseidons waves
d. Odysseus, king of Ithaca
d. King Aeolus wind storm
18.Why is the Cyclops father?
a. Poseidon
b. Zeus
c. Helios
d. Hermes
19.What
a.
b.
c.
d.

is the Cyclops name?

Polythemus
Polybus
Polyphemus
Gregory

20.Which goddess turns Odysseus men

into pigs and keeps him on her island
for a year?

26.How many days did Odysseus float out

at sea by himself?
a. 5 days
b. 3 days
c. 9 days
d. Two weeks
27.Who rescues Odysseus and keeps him
on her island for 7 years?
a. Calypso
b. Aphrodite
c. Circe
d. Hera
28.Who is the swineherd that Odysseus
visits after he returns to Ithaca?

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a. Eurylochus
b. She was lonely and wanted
b. Eurymachus
someone to talk to
c. Eumaeus
c. She heard that he knew
d. Telemachus
something about Odysseus
whereabouts
29.When Athena transforms Odysseus
d. She thought he was extremely
back to his true form, what does
handsome
Telemachus think he is?
a. A warrior
33.How did Antinous die?
b. His father
a. Arrow to the chest
c. A god
b. Arrow to the throat
d. An angel
c. Sword to the throat
30.Who is Argus?
a. Odysseus dog
b. One of the suitors
c. Odysseus son
d. Athenas eagle
31.What does Antinous throw at the
disguised Odysseus?
a. A stool
b. A piece of bread
c. A chair
d. A sword
32.Why does Penelope want to talk to the
disguised Odysseus?
a. She wanted to apologize for
Antinous actions

d. Sword to the chest

34.True or False: Odysseus spared some
of the suitors lives.
35.When the suitors families seek
revenge on Odysseus for killing their
loved ones, Athena shows up and puts
a stop to it. What is the Greek literary
term meaning divine intervention
that describes this scene?
a. Deus Machina Erebus
b. Deus Ex Machina
c. Dominae et machina
d. Dominus del erebus

Directions: Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.

36.What terrible things were happening to Oedipus city? Name at least two.

37.What was the Sphinxs riddle, and what was the answer?

38.Why didnt Jocasta believe in prophesies? Explain what she did with her firstborn son.

39.Why did Oedipus refuse to go be king of Corinth when Polybus died?

40.What did Oedipus do when he realized the truth?

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41.In The Odyssey, what happened on the island of the Cicones?

42.What happens when you eat a Lotus flower?

43.How do Odysseus and his men escape the Cyclops cave?

44.What does the Cyclops pray to his father for?

45.Who are the three people that Odysseus sees at Erebus (the entrance to the Underworld)?

46.Name three predictions that Tiresias tells Odysseus.

47.How did Odysseus escape Charybdis for the second time?

48.Name three instructions that Odysseus gives Telemachus upon his return to Ithaca.

49.How does Penelope trick the suitors into delaying her remarriage?

50.How did Penelope test Odysseus?

Directions: Write the letter of the definition to its matching mythological character or place.
51.____Zeus
52.
53.____Poseidon
54.____Athena
55.

56.____Hades
57.____Apollo
58.
59.____The Lotus Eaters

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60.____Cronus
d. Son of Uranus and Rhea;
61.
defeated and swallowed all of
62.____Sirens
his children because he didnt
want anyone to be more
63.____Mt. Cithaeron
powerful than he
64.
e. Goddess of war and strategy;
65.____Persephone
helped Odysseus on several
66.
occasions; was born from Zeus
67.
forehead
68.
f. God of the sea; father of
69.
70.
Polyphemus; son of Cronus and
71.
brother of Zeus and Hades
72.
g. Creatures who sang and lured
73.
sailors to their deaths
a. God of archery; parents are
h. Place where Jocasta left baby
Zeus and Leto; twin sister is
Oedipus to die; also the site of
Artemis; the god that was
many Greek battles
sought after in Oedipus Rex
i. Often called Father of the
b. God of the Underworld; son of
Gods; struck Odysseus ship
Cronus; kidnaped his wife
with lightning; defeated his
c. A group of people who ate a
father Cronus and released his
magical flower and never
captive siblings.
wanted to leave their island;
j. Was kidnapped by Hades to be
they forgot about home
his wife; mother is Demeter

74.Directions: Circle the nouns in the following sentences.

75.The dog wagged its tail as when it saw its master.
76.
77.Grading essays is my least favorite thing to do at Waynesboro High School.
Directions: Write at least two examples of each type of noun.
78.Commo
n

79.Prope
r

80.Abstra
ct

84.
85.
86.
87.

88.

89.

81.Concret
e
90.
91.
92.
93.
94.

82.Compou
nd

83.Collecti
ve

95.

96.

97.
98.Directions: Circle all of the pronouns in the following sentences.
99.Its paw was stuck in the fence, and it couldnt get it out.
100.
101.
He was mad at himself for cheating on the exam.
102.
103.
104.

Directions: Write at least two examples of each type of pronoun.

Persona
l

110.
111.
112.
113.

105.

Posses
sive

114.

106.

Demons
trative

115.

107.

Indefini
te
116.
117.
118.
119.
120.

108.

Interrog
ative

121.

109.

Refle
xive

122.

123.
124.

Directions: Underline the verbs and verb phrases in the following sentences.

125.
126.
127.
128.

I wanted to tell Ms. Sergie how much I liked her skirt, but she had left already.
She looked under the couch for her cat, but she could not find it.

129.
Directions: Underline the adjectives in the following sentences. Dont forget the
predicate adjectives.
130.
131.
132.
133.

The ugly dress that was hanging on the clearance rack was ripped and torn.

134.

Directions: Underline the adverbs in the following sentences.

135.
136.

She carefully carried the tray of waters to the table.

The English teacher tried to teach all of the grammar concepts before the midterm.

137.
Suddenly, the thunder loudly boomed and the lighting flashed so bright that my
vision was temporarily compromised.
138.
139.

Directions: Underline the prepositions in the following sentences.

140.
141.
142.
143.

Please walk to the office and give the pass to the secretary.

144.

Directions: Underline the conjunctions in the following sentences.

145.
146.

Either go to the office, or sit there and do your work.

Look underneath the paper tray for a paperclip.

147.
148.
The doctor said she would pull through, but she looked so weak that I wasnt sure if
she would.
149.
150.

Directions: Underline the interjections in the following sentences.

151.
Look, Im tired of your disrespect and laziness.
152.
153.
Well, I dont think that he was well enough to come to school, but he did all of his
make-up work.
154.
155.
Directions: Underline the simple subject once and the verb (simple predicate)
twice in the following sentences.
156.
157.
158.
159.

Mrs. Spence carefully graded the exams the weekend after the test was given.
The buses were late to school this morning.

160.
Directions: Write an F if the sentence is a fragment. Label the complete sentences
as D (Declarative), IM (Imperative), INT (Interrogative), or EX (Exclamatory).
161.
162.
163.
164.

____
____
____
____

The President of the United States!

Are you going to the prom this Saturday?
Please write your name at the top of the test.
On the top of the paper.

165.
Directions: Underline the subject(s) in each of the following sentences. If the
subject is you, write you in the space provided. NOTE: Some of these sentences are
inverted, meaning the subject is not at the beginning of the sentence.
166.
167.
168.
169.
170.
171.

______ Here is the missing remote control.

______ Under the coffee table is a box of DVDs.
______ Look behind the couch cushion for the DVD remote.

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173.

______ There are many reasons for the lack of organization.

174.
Directions: The following paragraph contains sentence fragments. Underline them
and edit them by combining sentences, adding words, or dropping words.
175.

I hope that the students. Do well on the exam. I know that several people

have studied. Although several students have not studied outside of school. The study
guide should have helped them while they were in class. All of the grammar concepts.
That we covered in class are on this exam. I hope that no one feels unprepared. Because
they have had several opportunities to prepare.
176.
Directions: Write an R next to the run-on sentences, and write a C next to the complete
sentences. EDIT the run-on sentences.
103. _____ The principal told the students to stop running in the hallway, but when the bell
rang, they ignored his suggestion.
104. _____ My dry erase markers are running out of ink, I need new ones before the end of
the year.
105. _____ The weather had been beautiful lately, unfortunately, I have not been able to
enjoy it.
106. _____ I really need some new teacher clothes, so I am going shopping this weekend.
177.
Directions: Change the verb tense of the underlined verb to the tense indicated in
parentheses.
107. Before the quiz, she wrote down all of the things she needed to remember. (past
participle)
178. _________________________________________________________________________________________
_________
108. She had written several grammar concepts that she didnt quite understand. (past)
179. _________________________________________________________________________________________
_________
180.
Directions: Indicate what tense the underlined verb is in. Write PA for past tense,
PAP for past participle, PRP for present participle, and P for present tense.
109. _____ I am writing a letter to the governor to complain about the last bill that was
passed.
110. _____ I really enjoy creating tests.

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Directions: In the following paragraph, circle the verb in parentheses that best completes
the sentence.
182.

Last year, I (threw, thrown) a birthday party for my little cousin. I (buyed,

bought) her several balloons. Before the end of the party she had (burst, bursted) all of
them. I (taked, took) a lot of pictures that day.
183.
Directions: Edit the following sentences for switches in verb tense. Make sure all of
your verbs match in tense.
115. Yesterday, I write the answers up on the board.
116. I will buy breakfast for my 11th graders before they took the SOL test.
184.
Directions: Write a P next to the sentence if it demonstrates parallel structure.
Write an NP if it is not parallel. Then edit the sentences that are not parallel.
117. _____ When on vacation at the beach, I like to lay out in the sun, read a good book, and
swimming.
118. _____ Writing is good for expanding your imagination, practicing, and for demonstrating
what you know.
185.
Directions: Label each sentences as A (active voice) or P (passive voice).
119. _____ Mrs. Spence spent days writing this exam.
186.
120. _____ The questions were created by Mrs. Spence.
121. _____ I hope the students do well on this exam.
122. _____ The exams were printed on Wednesday.
123. _____ The janitors accidentally threw all the copies away.
187.
Directions: Rewrite the sentences below to use active voice verbs. If the passive voice is
acceptable, write C.
124. The grass was mowed before the soccer game.
188. _________________________________________________________________________________________
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125. The concessions were sold by volunteer teachers.
189. _________________________________________________________________________________________
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191. *** Be sure to turn in your completed Study Guide today to receive extra credit.
Incomplete or late Study Guides will not be accepted.
192.
193.
194.
195.
196.