Pronouns Review

Identify the antecedent of the underlined pronoun in the following sentence:

Amerigo Vespucci became a very popular figure in 15th-century Europe after he published two pamphlets describing his travels to the "New World."

• Amerigo Vespucci

• the New World

• travels

• Europe

Identify the antecedent of the underlined pronoun in the following sentence:

In 1501, Vespucci claimed to have discovered a fourth continent, previously uncharted by Europeans, which he dubbed the "New World."

• Europeans

• the New World

• Vespucci

• continent

Identify the antecedent of the underlined word in the following sentence:

The German cartographer Martin Waldseemuller recognized Vespucci's accomplishments in 1507, when he applied the name "America" to the territory Vespucci had termed the "New World."

• Martin Waldseemuller

• Amerigo Vespucci

• America

• the New World

Identify the antecedent of the underlined pronoun in the following sentence:

As historians have investigated Vespucci's reports of his voyages, they have come to doubt their accuracy.

• Vespucci

• reports

• voyages

• historians

Identify the antecedent of the underlined pronoun in the following sentence:

As historians have investigated Vespucci's reports of his voyages, they have come to doubt their accuracy.

• historians

• Vespucci

• accuracy

• reports

Identify the type of pronoun underlined in the following sentence:

Some historians doubt the legitimacy of Vespucci's account of his first voyage to the New World because it only appears in one letter and is not corroborated elsewhere.

• personal

• reflexive

• indefinite

• interrogative

Identify the type of pronoun underlined in the following sentence:

Even Vespucci's contemporary, historian Bartolome de las Casas, suspected that Vespucci had fabricated this voyage to establish himself as having reached the "New World" before Christopher Columbus.

• interrogative

• relative

• reflexive

• intensive

Identify the type of pronoun underlined in the following sentence:

In 1513, Waldseemuller, the German cartographer who first applied the name America to the so-called New World, published a new map, which credited Columbus as the discoverer of the territory.

• relative

• reflexive

• indefinite

• interrogative

Identify the type of pronoun underlined in the following sentence.

"That is a very insightful observation," the professor said to the student.

• intensive

• reflexive

• demonstrative

• relative

Identify the type of pronoun underlined in the following sentence:

The team that discovered the wreckage of the RMS Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland in 1985 was led by American oceanographer Robert Ballard.

• demonstrative

• interrogative

• relative

• reflexive