Brit Lit - Semester 1 Final: Grammar

Choose the option that correctly identifies each noun and pronoun. 

Pepperoni, sausage, cheese, anchovies—everybody equates these with pizza.

• Pepperoni, sausage, cheese, anchovies, these, pizza 

• Pepperoni, sausage, cheese, anchovies, everybody, these 

• Pepperoni, sausage, cheese, anchovies, pizza

• Pepperoni, sausage, cheese, anchovies, everybody, these, pizza

Choose the option that correctly identifies each noun and pronoun. 

One can almost smell the delectable aromas that waft out from pizzerias. 

• aromas, pizzerias 

• One, aromas, that, pizzerias 

• One, almost, aromas, that, pizzerias

• One, aromas, pizzerias

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

Whether a person loves fruits, vegetables, or desserts, there is a pizza for him.

• person, fruits, vegetables, desserts, pizza, him

• person, fruits, vegetables, desserts, there, pizza, him

• Whether, person, fruits, vegetables, desserts, there, pizza, him

• Whether, person, fruits, vegetables, desserts, pizza, him

Choose the option that correctly identifies each noun and pronoun. 

Some establishments offer buffets with unlimited supplies of food.

• establishments, buffets, supplies, food

• establishments, buffets, food

• Some, establishments, buffets, supplies, food

• Some, establishments, buffets, food

Choose the option that correctly identifies the type of pronoun in parentheses.

Just exactly where or how pizza originated (no one) knows.

• personal

• indefinite

• demonstrative

• relative

Choose the option that correctly identifies the type of pronoun in parentheses.

According to some experts, pizza is a word (that) comes from the English word for bit or bite via the  German word pizzo, meaning a mouthful or piece of bread.

• intensive

• reciprocal

• demonstrative

• relative

Choose the option that correctly identifies the type of pronoun in parentheses.

If (this) is correct, the word pizza comes from an Italian word for maize pudding.

• indefinite

• demonstrative

• intensive

• reciprocal

The eighteenth-century excavation of Pompeii from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79  brought about the discovery of flat flour cakes and shops resembling pizzerias.

• action

• state of being

Recovered from the ruins of Pompeii, a statue named Il pizzaiolo now adorns a Naples museum.

• action

• state of being

After the introduction of tomatoes to Europe in 1522, this food quickly became a popular European  pizza topping, despite its previously being thought poisonous.

• action

• state of being