This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Epic > Beowulf – Quiz 41 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Beowulf Quiz 41 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who said the following quote? "But I pray thee, hardy heroes, sit down to the feast." A) Beowulf. B) The King. C) Unferth. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The King. 2. What happens to Beowulf's shield during his fight with the dragon? A) The dragon takes it. B) It melts. C) It disappears from the dragon's magic. D) It breaks in half. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It melts. 3. Faced with Beowulf, Grendel's plan was A) To fight to the death. B) To seek out Hrothgar for help. C) To escape back to the marshes in fear. D) To call for his men as back up. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To escape back to the marshes in fear. 4. In which century was Beowulf written? A) 6. B) 23. C) 1945. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 6. 5. How was Grendel defeated? A) His legs got cut off. B) His mom killed him. C) He was decapitated and he died instantly. D) His arm got cut off and he bled out. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) His arm got cut off and he bled out. 6. How many winters was Beowulf king before his death? A) 50 winters. B) 80 winters. C) 12 winters. D) 30 winters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 50 winters. 7. Who said the following quote? "Never since I first laid my right hand to the sword and bore the shield on my left have I given this hall of the Danes to any man to keep." A) The King. B) Beowulf. C) Unferth. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The King. 8. Does this quote from Beowulf contain a kenning renaming one of the main characters? Grendel was the name of this grim demon A) The traction g. B) Theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The traction g. 9. He is the king of the Danes A) Grendel. B) Wiglaf. C) Beowulf. D) Hrothgar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hrothgar. 10. The horrors of war include ..... the plundering and ransacking of the defeated and their homes, the terrible, unrestrained preying on the conquered. A) Ravening. B) Depredation. C) Retaliation. D) Scourging. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Depredation. 11. Comitatus was the reward a king would award his subjects for loyalty and success in battle A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 12. When it says that Unferth is vexed Beowulf, vexed can best be defined as ..... A) Respectful. B) Star struck. C) Bothered. D) Friendly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bothered. 13. What initial request does Beowulf make of Hrothgar? A) Gold & land. B) For the Geats to fight Grendel alone. C) For Hrothgar to convert to paganism. D) To marry Hrothgar's beautiful daughter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) For the Geats to fight Grendel alone. 14. BEOWULF was originally told orally and most likely written down by a A) Governor. B) Housewife. C) Monk. D) Unknown person. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Monk. 15. The great wero warrior of the Geats. A) Beowulf. B) Wealthow. C) Ashes. D) Wiglaf. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beowulf. 16. Wergild was also referred to as "Man Price" by the Anglo-Saxons A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 17. Describe the character of Beowulf. A) Selfish and lazy. B) Brave and heroic. C) Cowardly and weak. D) Timid and unadventurous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brave and heroic. 18. Repayment, revenge A) Foes. B) Sojourned. C) Solace. D) Requital. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Requital. 19. Beowulf was brought by emigrating Germanic tribes and was passed down A) In oral form. B) In written from. C) As a song. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In oral form. 20. Why does Grendel's mother attack Herot in Beowulf? A) To search for her lost treasure, which a slave has stolen. B) To find out if Hrothgar had returned to Herot. C) To ease her hunger, since Grendel hasn't brought home dinner for the past few nights. D) To seek revenge on Beowulf, who killed her sonj. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To seek revenge on Beowulf, who killed her sonj. 21. What is the name of the mead hall that Grendel terrorizes? A) Geatland. B) Distorted. C) Hrothgar. D) Beowulf. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Distorted. 22. "Up from his swampland, sliding silently" This line is an example of ..... A) Variation. B) Alliteration. C) Theory. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 23. Placement of two elements side by side so that the second identifies, clarifies, or elaborates on the first A) Angle. B) Apposition. C) Composition. D) Perspective. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apposition. 24. Which character is "The King of the Danes" ? A) Grendel. B) Hrothgar. C) Beowulf. D) Cain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hrothgar. 25. A very old imaginative pattern that appears in literature across time and cultures. A) Archetype. B) Alliteration. C) Theory. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Archetype. 26. Which of the following options best describes who the "kin of Cain" are in the text (page 5)? A) They are the monstrous, exiled descendants of the outcast Cain. B) They are monsters recruited by Cain to unleash havoc on the world. C) They are an elite unit of Hrothgar's most valiant warriors. D) They are Grendel's descendents, who worship Cain rather than the Christian God. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They are the monstrous, exiled descendants of the outcast Cain. 27. What do you call a pile of wood or combustible material on which a corpse is burned as part of a funeral ceremony? A) Fen. B) Lair. C) Moor. D) Pyre. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pyre. 28. What did Beowulf hang in Heorot to remind the Danes about the battle he faced? A) Grendel's Mother. B) Grendel. C) Grendel's Head. D) Grendel's Arm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grendel's Arm. 29. Beowulf is a myth A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 30. Why doesn't Beowulf want people to think he is a saint? A) He is evil. B) He dosen't think it is cool. C) He is not perfect. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He is not perfect. 31. Help from a god/supernatural force taking interest in a hero's quest A) Epic. B) Divine intervention. C) Valorous deeds. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Divine intervention. 32. When the narrator tells the reader that Beowulf's fight with the dragon will be his last, this is an exa mple of A) Foreshadowing. B) In medias res. C) Flashback. D) Deus ex machina. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 33. Grendel's mother lived ..... A) On land. B) Underwater. C) In a cave. D) At the Swan School. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Underwater. 34. Who stayed loyal to Beowulf after he was defeated and killed the dragon? A) Wiglaf. B) Hrothgar. C) Grendel. D) Alex. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wiglaf. 35. For which of the following would you most likely have to make reparation? A) Painting a portrait. B) Taking a test. C) Going to the beach. D) Betraying a friend. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Betraying a friend. 36. The text also mentions a psychological reason that Grendel might hate the men of Heorot so much. What is that reason? A) Grendel is a distorted and ugly version of a man. B) Grendel want to get married and have children. C) Grendel is angry that he still lives at home with his mother. D) Grendel has to live in a murky lake instead of a nice mead hall. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grendel is a distorted and ugly version of a man. 37. A reference to the bible A) Biblical allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Theme. D) Honor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biblical allusion. 38. Grendel caused problems for the Danes for A) 12 years. B) A decade. C) One winter. D) 20 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 12 years. 39. When facing his own death, Beowulf reflects on A) The treasures the dragon kept. B) His friends the Danes. C) His ideals about peace, justice, and honor. D) How unsuccessful his life was. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His ideals about peace, justice, and honor. 40. Shame he reckoned it, sharer-of-rings, to follow the flyer-afar with a host, a broad-flung band; nor the battle feared he, nor deemed he dreadful the dragon's warring, its vigor and valor:ventures desperate he had passed a-plenty, and perils of war, contest-crash, since, conqueror proud, Hrothgar's hall he had wholly purged, and in grapple had killed the kin of Grendel, loathsome breed! 1. Which of these is a kenning? A) Passed a-plenty. B) Killed the kin. C) Sharer of rings. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sharer of rings. 41. It is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series. A) Mail. B) Fleeing. C) Boast. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 42. Where can you find the original copy of "Beowulf?" A) In the United States private archives. B) On display in a London museum. C) On display in a church in London. D) It no longer exists. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) On display in a London museum. 43. Who built Herot Hall? A) Higlac. B) Wiglaf. C) Hrothgar. D) Hrunting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hrothgar. 44. What was the heroic ideal? A) Excellence. B) Laziness. C) Romance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Excellence. 45. A very long poem with a larger than life hero is called a ..... A) Haiku. B) Sonnet. C) Lymeric. D) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epic. 46. Greatest and strongest of the Geats A) Higlac. B) Beowulf. C) Wiglaf. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beowulf. 47. What sort of problem is Beowulf having to deal with in his kingdom; even in advanced age? A) A god. B) A warlord. C) Problems? Beowulf doesn't have problems. D) A dragon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A dragon. 48. Gendel represents A) Heroism. B) Good. C) Intelligence. D) Evil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Evil. 49. How does Beowulf defeat Grendel, and what happens to Grendel? A) Beheads him with a magic sword, and he dies immediately. B) His thanes ambush Grendel when he enters the mead hall and kills him. C) Rips his arm off, and Grendel goes back to his lair and dies there. D) Grendel is burned to death in his own fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rips his arm off, and Grendel goes back to his lair and dies there. 50. Beowulf's countrymen are encouraging him to do what in these lines? "This my earls then urged me, the most excellent of them, Carles very clever, to come and assist thee, Folk-leader Hrothgar; fully they knew ofThe strength of my body." A) To assist in taking down Scyldings. B) To defeat Hrothgar. C) To defeat Grendel. D) To show how strong he was. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To defeat Grendel. 51. Definition = provided, supplied, or equipped with (especially as by inheritance or nature) A) Prowess. B) Endow. C) Renown. D) Revel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Endow. 52. At the end of Cantos 20-21, Beowulf agrees to ..... A) Return home to Geatland to gather an army. B) Fight Grendel's mother. C) Talk to Grendel's mother and come to an agreement. D) Help rebuild the farms that were destroyed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fight Grendel's mother. 53. Instrument of the scops A) Lyre or harp. B) Drums and harp. C) Script. D) Small guitar and drums. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyre or harp. 54. The tabloid was sued for ..... after publishing lies about a celebrity A) Defamation. B) Explicate. C) Extolled. D) Lavish. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Defamation. 55. What is the hero's name in the text "Beowulf" ? A) Hrothgar. B) Grendel. C) Edgetheow. D) Beowulf. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Beowulf. 56. An opinion held of someone A) Baleful. B) Repute. C) Resolute. D) Languish. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repute. 57. Beowulf is written in Middle English A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 58. Arrangement of the parts of an image, whether drawn or recorded in some other visual format A) Lighting/color. B) Perspective. C) Composition. D) Angle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Composition. 59. Why does the story of Beowulf begin and end with a funeral? A) To show Beowulf's loyalty one final time. B) To show Beowulf was just like other kings. C) To show Beowulf's death was honorable, just as the original king, Shield's was. D) It explains the circle of life, that death is inevitable. You cannot outrun fate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It explains the circle of life, that death is inevitable. You cannot outrun fate. 60. This loyal friend to Beowulf inherits Beowulf's kingdom. A) Unferth. B) Wiglaf. C) Ashes. D) Wealthow. 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