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Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Odysseus comes back to Ithaca on a clear day.
a)
simple
b)
compound
c)
complex
d)
compound-complex
2.

All his impatience leaves him, and he sits under an oak tree.

a)

Simple

b)

Compound

c)

Complex

d)

Compound-Complex

3.

An hour passes in silence, and it occurs to him that he is tired and might as well go home, so he picks up his sword and walks.

a)

Simple

b)

Compound

c)

Complex

d)

Compound-Complex

4.
The house looks much as it did when he left.
a)
Simple
b)
Compound
c)
Complex
d)
Compound-Complex
5.
He notices that the sheep byre's gate has been mended.
a)
Simple
b)
Compound
c)
Complex
d)
Compound-Complex
6.

A rivulet of smoke rises from the chimney.

a)

Simple

b)

Compound

c)

Complex

d)

Compound-Complex

7.

Within, Penelope is at her loom, and an old man drowses by the fire.

a)

Simple

b)

Compound

c)

Complex

d)

Compound-Complex

8.

If you pretty up how people speak and change the things they said, that is dishonest.

a)

Simple

b)

Compound

c)

Complex

d)

Compound-Complex

9.

It is the late 1940s, and she has not yet reached the age of thirty.

a)

Simple

b)

Compound

c)

Complex

d)

Compound-Complex

10.
I was a kid who had failed freshman year at the regular public high school because I never showed up.
a)
Simple
b)
Compound
c)
Complex
d)
Compound-Complex
11.

I transferred to an alternative school that offered dream studies instead of biology, so I was taking a class at the community college for high school credit.

a)

Simple

b)

Compound

c)

Complex

d)

Compound-Complex

12.
I was completely lost.
a)
Simple
b)
Compound
c)
Complex
d)
Compound-Complex
13.
Cells make up all our tissues which make up all our organs.
a)
Simple
b)
Compound
c)
Complex
d)
Compound-Complex
14.
Johns Hopkins was built in 1889 as a charity hospital for the sick and poor, and it covered more than a dozen acres where a cemetery and the insane asylum once sat in East Baltimore.
a)
Simple
b)
Compound
c)
Complex
d)
Compound-Complex
15.
The public wards at Hopkins were filled with patients.
a)
Simple
b)
Compound
c)
Complex
d)
Compound-Complex
16.
The house stood on a hillside where wind whipped through the cracks in the walls.
a)
Simple
b)
Compound
c)
Complex
d)
Compound-Complex
17.
Henrietta often yelled for Day, but sometimes she cheered for another cousin.
a)
Simple
b)
Compound
c)
Complex
d)
Compound-Complex
18.
Everybody put coins in the jukebox and drank RC Cola, but the profits never amounted to much.
a)
Simple
b)
Compound
c)
Complex
d)
Compound-Complex
19.
When the steam cleared, she stepped inside and sealed the door behind her.
a)
Simple
b)
Compound
c)
Complex
d)
Compound-Complex
20.
Gey paid his way through a biology degree at the University of Pittsburgh by working as a carpenter and mason, and he could make nearly anything for cheap or free.
a)
Simple
b)
Compound
c)
Complex
d)
Compound-Complex