This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Epic > Beowulf – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Beowulf Quiz 12 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Leave something to someone once dead A) Bequeath. B) Canny. C) Heirloom. D) Bolster. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bequeath. 2. What does King Hrothgar decide to build? A) A castle. B) A funeral pyre. C) A mead-hall. D) A ship. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A mead-hall. 3. How many years has Grendel terrorized the Danes? A) 12. B) 11. C) 10. D) 9. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 12. 4. Was Beowulf the one to defeat the fire dragon with his own two hands? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 5. Because heroes are incredibly strong and courageous, they often seem ..... to the readers. A) Super-human. B) Afraid. C) Like great warriors. D) God-like. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Super-human. 6. Which thane stays loyal and comes to Beowulf's aid? A) Higlac. B) Wiglaf. C) Wealthow. D) Unferth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wiglaf. 7. What is the one weapon Beowulf is taking with him into battle? A) A sword. B) A helmet. C) A shield. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A shield. 8. "Whale's home" and "provider of gifts" are examples of A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Kennings. D) Belief in wyrd. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kennings. 9. For what reason does Grendel attack Herot? A) He is annoyed by the noise. B) He is mad that they trespassed on his land. C) He is frustrated that he can no longer see the ocean. D) He's a monster and likes to attack. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He is annoyed by the noise. 10. The celebration room is called A) Heores. B) Heroin. C) Heorot. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Heorot. 11. "These fingers that you feel are ten great stars. Stars have no fear. I do not fear you, Grendel." A) Oxymoron. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 12. Who represents loyalty, duty, and the ideal companion?use character and contribution worksheet A) WEAKEST. B) UNFERTH. C) BEOWULF. D) HROTHGAR. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) WEAKEST. 13. Discuss the influence of Christianity in Beowulf. A) Beowulf is purely a Christian poem. B) There is no influence of Christianity in Beowulf. C) The influence of Christianity in Beowulf is evident through the blending of Christian and pagan elements in the poem. D) The influence of Christianity in Beowulf is minimal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The influence of Christianity in Beowulf is evident through the blending of Christian and pagan elements in the poem. 14. Which Anglo-Saxon belief is revealed in the line "Fate will unwind as it must?" A) Justice will prevail. B) Human life is shaped by destiny. C) People determine their own path. D) Danger is present everywhere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Human life is shaped by destiny. 15. Marked by ready ability to move with quick easy grace, quick, resourceful adaptable character A) Brand. B) Spoils. C) Crammed. D) Agile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Agile. 16. Epic heroes should have character traits such as A) Loyalty. B) Honor. C) Selflessness. D) A, B and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A, B and C. 17. "Milo thought for just a moment and then, with a resolute 'I shall, ' volunteered to go, " Norton Juster writes in the classic children's novel The Phantom Tollbooth.In this sentence, resolute means A) Confident. B) Shy. C) Indecisive. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Confident. 18. Grendel was a good monster A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. Beowulf's Hero Journey:Beowulf is mortally wounded in the battle with the dragon; Wiglaf inherits Beowulf's kingdom. A) Result. B) New Life. C) Resolution. D) Crisis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Resolution. 20. The action of Beowulf takes place in which century? A) 8th century. B) 4th century. C) 15th century. D) 6th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 6th century. 21. The Anglo-Saxons wrote in runes. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 22. "Together they quenched the fire, together beat out his loathsome life." A) Irony. B) Octameter. C) Paraphrase. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anaphora. 23. Why don't Beowulf or those of his band stop Grendel's mother? A) They try, but fail. B) They think she has a right to avenge her son. C) She is too powerful. D) They were sleeping somewhere else that night. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They were sleeping somewhere else that night. 24. Smacking your food is a pet peeve of mine, so I ..... all the way through dinner with rude people. A) Quenched. B) Lauded. C) Seethed. D) Plundered. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Seethed. 25. How long did Beowulf rule the Geatland? A) 100 years. B) 40 years. C) 50 years. D) 2 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 50 years. 26. "The monster squealed with rage. His throat was full of the noise of crunching bones." A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Euphemism. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 27. What trophy does Beowulf claim at the end of his battle with Grendel? A) The golden hasp of a mead-bench thrown by the monster. B) Grendel's arm and hand. C) The hinges of the door Grendel ripped. D) Grendel sides. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grendel's arm and hand. 28. What weapon does Beowulf select to fight Grendel? A) No weapon. B) A spear. C) A dagger. D) A broadsword. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No weapon. 29. In what period of time was Old English used? A) 450-1150 AD. B) 600-1100 AD. C) 1150-1450 AD. D) 300-1000 AD. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 450-1150 AD. 30. The stadium erupted into ..... when the Yankees won the World Series. A) Exultation. B) Pandemonium. C) Timorous. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pandemonium. 31. Choose the example of an alliteration. A) The brave watchman. B) So mankind's enemy. C) Sliding silently. D) Glowing in the sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sliding silently. 32. Below is an example of a ..... Seized the ring-hilt and swung the sword A) Illiteration. B) Theory. C) Cutting. D) Illusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cutting. 33. What did the warriors do after laying Beowulf to rest? A) They burned his body. B) They rode around his tomb to remember him. C) They all went back home. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They rode around his tomb to remember him. 34. What does the author of Beowulf refer to? A) Both the Old & New Testament. B) The Old Testament. C) The New Testament. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Old Testament. 35. Is an extended meditative poem in which the speaker reflects upon death-often in tribute to a subject A) Figurative Language. B) Epic Hero. C) Epic. D) Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Elegy. 36. What happened to Unferth? A) Unferth was killed and torn apart. All that was left was his head and Beowulf ordered him buried. B) Unferth was alive and well, serving Grendel's mother in the underworld. C) Unferth was killed while leaving the hall. Beowulf and the Geats followed the trail of blood and gore to the pool. D) Unferth was found in pieces along the path to the pool. He was collected and buried. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unferth was killed and torn apart. All that was left was his head and Beowulf ordered him buried. 37. What quality is implied in lines 23-24? A) Compassion. B) Obedience. C) Loyalty. D) Respect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Loyalty. 38. Vikings are famous for ..... every monastery and castle they could find A) Seething. B) Relishing. C) Quenching. D) Plundering. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plundering. 39. Which character in Beowulf is compared to Cain from the Bible? A) Grendel's mother. B) Beowulf. C) Grendel. D) Hrothgar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grendel. 40. Which type of sentence includes a single independent clause? A) Simple. B) Compound. C) Complex. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simple. 41. What happened to Hardred? A) He was killed in battle by Onela's Axe. B) He was killed in battle by Beowulf's Axe. C) He had been shot in the chest by an arrow. D) He had been left for dead and eaten by wolves. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was killed in battle by Onela's Axe. 42. What was the name of the hall that Hrothgar built? A) Half-day. B) Distorted. C) Halga. D) Hergar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Distorted. 43. What do the stories told by the men reveal about Anglo-Saxon culture and religion? A) This reveals that the Anglo-Saxons valued the tradition of story-telling, particularly creation The use of the word "Almighty" and the description of the creation of the earth reads like a Christian narrative, which show the Anglo-Saxon's growing beliefs in the principles or stories of Christianity. B) This reveals that the Anglo-Saxons valued the tradition of telling myths about creation. It also reveals the need of Anglo-Saxons to tell "fishermen stories" to make the men feel better about themselves. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) This reveals that the Anglo-Saxons valued the tradition of story-telling, particularly creation The use of the word "Almighty" and the description of the creation of the earth reads like a Christian narrative, which show the Anglo-Saxon's growing beliefs in the principles or stories of Christianity. 44. Where did Beowulf come from? A) Geatland. B) Distorted. C) Oxford. D) Bedford. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Geatland. 45. Match the character with the description:King of the Danes A) Hygelac. B) Hrothgar. C) Beowulf. D) Grendel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hrothgar. 46. Someone or something who guards others from harm A) Swayed. B) Groped. C) Protector. D) Truce. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Protector. 47. Which type of archetype would want to become more and more physically and emotionally attractive? A) The Lover. B) The Hero. C) The Outlaw. D) The Magician. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Lover. 48. How is Beowulf going to defeat his foe (the dragon) this time? A) Common sense and a good attitude. B) Positivity and good vibes. C) On his own (He doesn't see the dragon as a threat). D) With his trusty sidekick Sam Gamgee. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) On his own (He doesn't see the dragon as a threat). 49. A blood relative, usually male A) Pyre. B) Bard. C) Kinsman. D) Giant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kinsman. 50. Why does Beowulf have bad eyes? A) His dad had bad eyes. B) Bees attacked him when he was young. C) He has allergies. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bees attacked him when he was young. 51. What the king grants for killing Grendel: A) All the gold of the kingdom. B) Half the gold of the kingdom. C) Be the king. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Half the gold of the kingdom. 52. When blood rises up from Grendel's Mother's swap, Hrothgar's men assume Beowulf has been killed. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 53. Who is the monster that haunted King Hrothgar's palace and killed numerous Danes? A) Grendel. B) Greddle. C) Greendle. D) Gretel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grendel. 54. The mention and explanation of Grendel being a descendant of Cain is an example of A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Kennings. D) Cesura. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 55. The pool Beowulf jumped into did not look like normal water. Why and how did get this way? A) Filled with Grendel's Blood. B) Filled with Grendel's mother's blood. C) Filled with slime from Grendel's Mother. D) Filled with mud from the ground. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Filled with Grendel's Blood. 56. Is language that communicates ideas beyond the literal meaning of words A) Figurative Language. B) Elegy. C) Epic Hero. D) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figurative Language. 57. "Battle-sweat" would be an example of ..... A) Akening. B) An allusion. C) To caesura. D) A motif. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Akening. 58. Who is the creator of archetypes? A) Emperor Palpatine. B) Sigmund Freud. C) Carl Jung. D) Karl Marx. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carl Jung. 59. What is a low marshy area of land called? A) Moor. B) Dale. C) Fen. D) Crag. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fen. 60. What fails Beowulf? A) His courage. B) His sword. C) His armor. D) None of above. 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