This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Epic > Beowulf – Quiz 44 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Beowulf Quiz 44 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. To arrive at a judgment or settlement by an unbiased third party, A) Arbitrate. B) Baleful. C) Boon. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arbitrate. 2. According to your understanding of this part of Beowulf, how long has Grendel been attacking the Heorot? A) For 2 years. B) For 5 years. C) For 12 years. D) For 20 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) For 12 years. 3. Which of the following is the most accurate comparison of the portrayal of Beowulf in the graphic novel of Beowulf and in the original epic poem? A) In the graphic novel, Beowulf appears as brave and determined before battle as he does in the epic. B) In the graphic novel, Beowulf appears nobler than he does in the epic. C) In the graphic novel, Beowulf appears as a physical giant compared to his warriors, as he also appears in the epic. D) In the graphic novel, Beowulf appears frightened when he sees the dragon, but in the epic Beowulf shows no fear. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In the graphic novel, Beowulf appears as brave and determined before battle as he does in the epic. 4. What final request does Beowulf make of Hrothgar A) Give him treasure if he wins. B) Let him keep something from Grendel as a trophy. C) Let everyone in all the lands know of his victory. D) If Beowulf loses, send his armor back to Higlac. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) If Beowulf loses, send his armor back to Higlac. 5. Beowulf was written in a language called A) New English. B) Kennings. C) Wyrd. D) Old English. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Old English. 6. The atmosphere was dark and ..... from the fog. A) Taut. B) Murky. C) Loathsome. D) Livid. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Murky. 7. Grendel is a descendant of Abel. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 8. What is the name of Hrothgar's great mead-hall, the setting for the action of the first part of Beowulf? A) Heorot. B) Halgahall. C) Harauragar. D) Hapax Words. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heorot. 9. Beowulf's last request is that his people A) Live long and prosper. B) Build a castle in his honor and bury the treasure. C) Build a church in his honor. D) Go forth and spread the teachings of God. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Build a castle in his honor and bury the treasure. 10. The fiery dragon (fire drake) is angry because a fugitive slave stole what from him? A) Money. B) Flowers. C) An egg. D) Treasure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Treasure. 11. Describe how Beowulf managed to breath in the water of the fen A) He lung capacity was just that good. B) He was able to control how much air he needed. C) He took a bag filled with air. D) He was able to breathe the air inside the blood bubbles as they floated up. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He was able to breathe the air inside the blood bubbles as they floated up. 12. Where has Grendel been attacking? A) Sweden. B) Hrothgar. C) Distorted. D) Gondor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Distorted. 13. Come face to face, meet as an adversary or enemy, engage in conflict with, A) Encounter. B) Mortal. C) Brand. D) Clambered. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Encounter. 14. Where does Grendel's first attack take place? A) Distorted. B) Beowulf's home. C) Valhalla. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Distorted. 15. Who goes into the cave to fight the dragon? (Beowulf Visits the Dragon) A) Wulfgar. B) Beowulf. C) Grendel. D) Unferth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beowulf. 16. To whom does Beowulf attribute his successes? A) God. B) His army. C) Himself. D) Pagan gods. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) God. 17. A reprisal is ..... A) Praise. B) Love. C) A payment. D) Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Punishment. 18. What is the first section of the epic poem Beowulf about? A) Beowulf fighting Grendel's mother. B) Beowulf's journey to the misty lake. C) Beowulf fighting Grendel. D) Beowulf fighting a dragon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beowulf fighting Grendel. 19. What is the name of the mead hall in Beowulf? A) Heorot. B) Midgard. C) Asgard. D) Valhalla. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heorot. 20. In the phrase "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, " what literary device is primarily used? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 21. What was common during this time? A) War and disease outbreak. B) Wars. C) Horrible Storms. D) Disease outbreak. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) War and disease outbreak. 22. In the 8th century, ? arrived and invaded and looted Denmark A) Native Americans. B) The French monarchy. C) The Vikings. D) English Settlers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Vikings. 23. European literature from roughly 500 to 1500 CE is called by what name? A) Early modern literature. B) Medieval literature. C) Renaissance literature. D) Victorian literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Medieval literature. 24. "Sea-road" and "word-hoard" are examples of what figure of speech? A) The clock. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Kennings. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kennings. 25. Who won the battle between Beowulf and Grendel's mother? A) Beowulf. B) Grendal's Mother. C) Grendal. D) Sammy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beowulf. 26. What is an example of a kenning? A) Whale-road. B) Blood vengeance code. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Whale-road. 27. Formed or developed from something else A) Derived. B) Disposition. C) Infamous. D) Docile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Derived. 28. Swamp, marshy bog A) Boil. B) Vengeance. C) Fen. D) Lurked. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fen. 29. What was did Beowulf say in his dying speech? A) He wanted everyone to remember him and sing songs about him. B) He passed his kingship to Wiglaf and told him he wanted his tomb to be a tower that seaman would see from far away. C) He passed his kingship to his sons and asked that they not forget him. D) He wanted a statue to be built that showed him killing a dragon so no one would forget what he had done. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He passed his kingship to Wiglaf and told him he wanted his tomb to be a tower that seaman would see from far away. 30. If you intrude on people without their permission, you are an ..... A) Interloper. B) Sentry. C) Proffer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Interloper. 31. Who attacked after Beowulf fought Grendel? A) Grendel's mother. B) Grendel's brother. C) Grendel's wife. D) Grendel's sister. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grendel's mother. 32. Melted away; transformed into liquid A) Dissolved. B) Truce. C) Mail. D) Uttered. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dissolved. 33. The ..... was stationed outside the castle to keep watch overnight. A) Sinister. B) Culprit. C) Sentinel. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sentinel. 34. In an appropriate or proper manner A) Resolute. B) Duly. C) Plight. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Duly. 35. What is foreshadowing? A) The repetition of initial sounds of words (when words start with the same sound). B) A two-word phrase that renames something by its characteristics (often hyphenated); always acts as a noun. C) A reference to something famous outside the text. D) A clue about what's going to happen later in the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A clue about what's going to happen later in the story. 36. Reread lines 35-38 from Beowulf for a specific feature of Old English poetry. The author substitutes the name Grendel with the kenning God-cursed brute in order to-and human sorrow. Suddenly thenthe God-cursed brute was creating havoc:greedy and grim, he grabbed thirty menfrom their resting places and rushed to his lair, A) Emphasize the depth of Grendel's evil. B) Describe the havoc Grendel creates in detail for the reader. C) Show the reader that Grendel presents no real challenge. D) Stress the excess of Grendel's greed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emphasize the depth of Grendel's evil. 37. The battle was over, Beowulf had been granted new glory:How? A) Beowulf sliced Grendel's head clean off with a Samurai sword. B) Beowulf dodged Grendel's blow and caused Grendel to slip and fall headlong. C) Beowulf snapped Grendel's shoulder shredding muscle and splitting bone causing perfused bleeding and writhing pain. D) Beowulf stamped on Grendel's head with his boot and crushed his skull skishing his eyeballs and caving in his nose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beowulf snapped Grendel's shoulder shredding muscle and splitting bone causing perfused bleeding and writhing pain. 38. True or False:Beowulf defeats Grendel with his bare hands A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 39. Anglo-Saxons were skillful builders and craftsmen with a love for beauty. "Hrothgar's wise men had fashioned Herot to stand forever; only ..... could shatter what such skill had put together ..... " A) A magnificent fight of this sort. B) Thunder and lightning. C) Battering rams. D) Fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fire. 40. What should NOT be in a lead paragraph? A) Will?. B) Where?. C) Why?. D) When?. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Will?. 41. Choose a synonym for the word Comrade A) Enemy. B) Dance. C) Friend. D) Coffee. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Friend. 42. Who becomes king after Beowulf dies? A) Unferth. B) Hrothgar. C) Higlac. D) Wiglaf. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wiglaf. 43. Beowulf and Grendel are compared in Canto 19 as ..... A) Human vs. Beast. B) Good vs. Evil. C) Man vs. Monster. D) Right vs. Wrong. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Good vs. Evil. 44. What does Beowulf say he will do? A) Defeat Grendel. B) Swim across the English Channel. C) Buy a flagon of mead for everyone in the hall. D) Marry Hrothgar's daughter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Defeat Grendel. 45. Beowulf's Hero Journey:Beowulf responds to reports about the attacks on Heorot. A) Approach. B) Call to Adventure. C) Departure. D) Trials. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Call to Adventure. 46. Where was Grendel's arm hung? A) Above the entrance to the town. B) At the door of the party room. C) In the town church. D) In the tallest tower in town. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) At the door of the party room. 47. Beowulf has been translated several times, but was originally written in Old English A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 48. Prefixes occur..... A) At the beginning of a word. B) In the middle of the word. C) At the end of the word. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) At the beginning of a word. 49. To take for granted, assume, or suppose A) Purport. B) Absorb. C) Agitate. D) Presume. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Presume. 50. Beowulf's first clue that he will not survive the battle is when he realizes how weak this is: A) His sword. B) Himself. C) His shield. D) His armor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His shield. 51. In what way does the story of Beowulf represent transitions in the world of those who created and told the story? A) They stopped writing the story down as time went on. B) Their world went from calm and orderly to violent and wild. C) The people began to question their violent way of life. D) They went from illiterate and Pagan, to literate and Christian. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They went from illiterate and Pagan, to literate and Christian. 52. A collection of plant material bound together A) Sheaf. B) Spin drift. C) Malicious. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sheaf. 53. What does Beowulf do to Grendel? A) Kidnaps him. B) Rips his arm off. C) Stabs him. D) Eats him. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rips his arm off. 54. Grendel's parents are..... A) People. B) Angels. C) Monsters. D) Unknown. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Monsters. 55. What is the chemical in turkey that people say makes you tired? A) Hydrogenated oil. B) Monosodium Glutamate. C) Tryptophan. D) Sesame seed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tryptophan. 56. How does Grendel's mother get revenge for her son's death? A) She kills one of Hrothgar's friends. B) She attacks Beowulf and injures him. C) She destroys Heorot so there will never be parties there. D) She kills Beowulf. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She kills one of Hrothgar's friends. 57. What do the Geats burn? A) The underwater lair. B) The dragon's treasure. C) Firewood for heat. D) A pyre for Beowulf. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The dragon's treasure. 58. Wiglaf was mad at the other warriors because they wouldn't help Beowulf. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 59. "Grendel struggled:-his grudges he cherished" is mostly an example of which Anglo-Saxon poetic device? A) Alliteration. B) Cesura. C) Theory. D) Old English. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cesura. 60. A hero is favored by the A) Gods. B) Protagonist. C) Antagonist. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gods. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesBeowulf Quiz 1Beowulf Quiz 2Beowulf Quiz 3Beowulf Quiz 4Beowulf Quiz 5Beowulf Quiz 6Beowulf Quiz 7Beowulf Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books