Norse mythology part a is the name of the story
woden, who was also called odin, was the greatest of all. (1)his name means “mighty warrior,” yet he was king of all the gods. he rode through the air mounted on sleipnir, an eightfooted horse fleeter than the eagle. (2) if the tempest roared, the teutons said it was the snorting of sleipnir. when their ships came safely into port, they said it was woden’s breath that had filled their sails and wafted their vessels over the blue waters.

2 thor, a son of woden, ranked next to him among the gods. he rode through the air in a chariot drawn by goats. the germans called him donar and thunar, words which are like our word thunder. from this we can see that he was the thunder god. (3)in his hand he carried a wonderful hammer which always had come back to his hand when he threw it. its head was so bright that as it flew through the air it made the lightning. (4)when it struck the vast ice mountains, they reeled and splintered into fragments, and thus thor’s hammer made thunder.

3 (5)also a great god of our ancestors was tiew. he was a son of woden and was the god of battle. he was armed with a sword which flashed like lightning when he brandished it. a savage chief named attila routed the armies of the romans and so terrified all the world that he was called “the scourge of god.”(6) his people believed that he gained his victories if he had the sword of tiew, which a herdsman chanced to find where the god had allowed it to fall. the teutons prayed to tiew when they went into battle.

4 frija (free’ ya) was the wife of woden and the queen of the gods. (7)she ruled the bright clouds that gleam in the summer sky and caused them to pour their showers on meadow, forest, and where the mountains were.

5 four of the days of the week are named after these gods. (8) tuesday means the day of tiew; wednesday, the day of woden; thursday, the day of thor; and friday, the day of frija.

6 (9) frija’s son, who was the favorite of all the gods, was baldur. only loki, the spirit of evil, hated him. baldur’s face was as bright as sunshine. his hair gleamed like burnished gold. wherever he went, night was turned into day.

read the passage. look at the underlined sections marked number 2. there may be a mistake in the way the sentence is written. if you find a mistake, choose the answer that corrects the mistake. if there is no mistake, choose ‘correct as is.’
a) correct as is.
b) the tempest roared, and the teutons said it was the snorting of sleipnir.
c) when the tempest roared, the teutons said it was the snorting of sleipnir.
d) although the tempest roared, the teutons said it was the snorting of sleipnir.
2)
read the passage. look at the underlined section marked number 6. there may be a mistake in the way the sentence is written. if you find a mistake, choose the answer that corrects the mistake. if there is no mistake, choose ‘correct as is.’
a) his people believed that he gained his victories although he had the sword of tiew, which a herdsman chanced to find where the god had allowed it to fall.
b) his people believed that he gained his victories because he had the sword of tiew, which a herdsman chanced to find where the god had allowed it to fall.
c) his people believed that he gained his victories until he had the sword of tiew, which a herdsman chanced to find where the god had allowed it to fall.
eliminate
d) correct as is.