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Beowulf Quiz 39 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is diction?
2. What is the role of foreshadowing in Beowulf?
3. Describe exulting.
4. Who Said it: "' It takes an evil nose to smell the devil ..... " and who is it about
5. How does Grendel's mother avenge her son's death?
6. "Let me give you a hand." The word hand actually means help. This is an example of
7. Since I bare no ..... towards you, I do not understand why we cannot be friends.
8. Like the Greek goddess Aphrodite, Freyya was the Norse goddess of
9. Which state of the Hero's Journey did these happen in Beowulf?Beowulf receives honor and treasure.
10. . Beowulf does not have a problem being poised between two different value systems.
11. What is the meaning of the word herculean in this sentence? I have a herculean task in trying to paint a picture of these tremendous industries in half an hour.
12. Belief that something is worthless
13. Excluded, Grendel stalks the swamp outside the mead-hall. Thus, he
14. An ..... is a long, narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society.
15. Christian monks were the first people to write down the story of Beowulf.
16. A restraint or check on someone's freedom to do something, typically one considered unfair or overly restrictive.
17. To question over and over is the definition of which vocabulary word?
18. Is an indirect reference to a person, place, event, or literary work with which the author believes the reader will be familiar
19. How does the theme of loyalty contribute to the plot of Beowulf?
20. How did men become warriors and then kings?
21. The people are impressed with Beowulf's cleverness and cunningness to defeat the Firedrake.
22. In which quote is alliteration used to make the monster sound grotesque and violent?
23. What word means:metal collars or neck chains
24. A two word renaming ( sometimes in the form of a prepositional phrase)
25. The adjective ..... describes someone who is willing to take risks.
26. What does every warrior know is inevitable?
27. How long has Beowulf been King of the Geats since we last met him?
28. What does Wiglaf say will be the punishment for the soldiers who abandoned Beowulf when he needed them most?
29. How did the Anglo-Saxons tell their stories?
30. Tendon; ligament
31. A ..... is a situation that's hard to get out of.
32. Which term is NOT a synonym for ENDOWED?
33. In Beowulf, when he returns to Geatland, how does he show his loyalty to the king?
34. Who is terrorizing Heorot at the beginning of the story?
35. What is an antonym for Lament?
36. A banquet is a.....
37. Who was the leader of the Anglo-Saxons?
38. Who asks to fight the monster?
39. In the sentence, "The detective stealthily stalked the suspect through the dark alley, " what does "stalked" mean?
40. The village dogs began to ..... in unison at the full moon.
41. Lives in the swamps and seeks to avenge her son's death.
42. The maggots that show up in the outside trash can in the summer are .....
43. Some of the characters in the poem actually existed.
44. Make a deliberate distortion of the facial muscles often to express irony or mockery
45. How is the dragon killed?
46. What is the language that Anglo-Saxons developed and spoke?
47. His reputation was ruined by ..... rumors.
48. What personality trait primarily drives Grendel's decision to attack Heorot
49. After Beowulf defeated the monster's mother and after defeating the dragon, a bright light suddenly appeared, "shining everywhere." This is evidence of
50. Maraud means to:
51. Beowulf thought that a noble man's wealth should be .....
52. Who is the king of the Danes in Beowulf?
53. Which word means pertaining to ancestors or family?
54. The Anglo-Saxons believed in fate, or .....
55. Which term fits in this sentence:Even a hurricane couldn't knock down the old, ..... tree that had been planted in the center square for hundreds of years.
56. Beowulf became king after Hygelac was killed in the battle.
57. The words "sea-realm" and "whale-beast" are examples of what Anglo-Saxon literary convention?
58. Where was it written?
59. After celebrating Beowulf's victory, what occurs at Herot?
60. Which universal theme do these lines of this epic suggest? "Though he lived in Heorot, when the night hid him, he never/Dared to touch king Hrothgar's glorious/Throne, protected by God-God, /Whose love Grendel could not know."
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