Here are some exercises that I would like you to work on, taken from the book Toric Varieties by Cox, Little, and Schenck.

Section 1.1: 5, 14
Section 1.2: 14
Section 1.3: 7, 11
Section 2.1: 6
Section 2.2: 6, 7, 10
Section 3.2: 7
Section 3.3: 6, 8, 9, 13
Section 4.1: 5
Section 4.2: 10, 13