This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Epic > Beowulf – Quiz 71 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Beowulf Quiz 71 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Beowulf's Hero Journey:Grendel's mother attacks the mead hall. A) New Life. B) Result. C) Approach. D) Crisis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Approach. 2. What did King Hrothgar build in his land to celebrate with his people? A) A new field for crops. B) A mead hall called Herot. C) A church dedicated to the sun gods. D) A dance floor in the center of the village. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A mead hall called Herot. 3. Bewildering means A) Something that causes suffering or pain. B) Harmful or malignant in intent or effect. C) Inflict harm in return for (an injury or wrong done to oneself or another). D) Confusing or perplexing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Confusing or perplexing. 4. Which qualities did Anglo-Saxons value most? A) Those of a warrior. B) Those of a father. C) Those of a mother. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Those of a warrior. 5. What was the king's name? A) Ragnar. B) Beowulf. C) Rothgar. D) Grendel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rothgar. 6. What happens to the men Beowulf leaves at the opening of the dragon's lair? A) They run off into the forest. B) They help him slay the dragon. C) They put out the fires that the dragon starts. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They run off into the forest. 7. The battle with the dragon is different for Beowulf because he is old and not that strong anymore. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 8. What saves Beowulf's life when Grendel's mother pins him down? A) A dragon. B) The Danes swam down to fight with him. C) The woven mail shirt on his chest. D) His sword. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The woven mail shirt on his chest. 9. Where did Grendel live? A) Norway. B) Sweden. C) Denmark. D) England. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Denmark. 10. The opposite of scourge is: A) Truth. B) Blessing. C) Struggle. D) Mistake. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blessing. 11. Heorot is located where? A) Geatland. B) Sweden. C) England. D) Denmark. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Denmark. 12. What is the role of honor in Beowulf? A) Honor is not important in Beowulf. B) Honor creates unnecessary conflicts and obstacles in the story. C) Honor represents power, status, and influence. D) Honor drives the actions of the characters and influences their relationships. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Honor drives the actions of the characters and influences their relationships. 13. What is the literary term for the repetition of consonants sounds in lines of poetry. A) Illiteration. B) Alliteration. C) Illusion. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 14. True of false:Beowulf is an example of a viking? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 15. True or False ..... In our world today fame is very important for eternal life. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 16. What does it mean to conform? A) To claim something as a fact. B) To analyze data. C) To fit into conventions. D) To follow accepted rules. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To follow accepted rules. 17. To Superman, kryptonite is..... A) Affen. B) An anathema. C) A respite. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An anathema. 18. Which one is not an element of epic poetry A) Includes formal diction and a serious tone. B) Usually involves supernatural creatures, great deeds, and perilous journeys. C) Imbues the hero with traits that reflect the ideals of the larger culture. D) Conveys universal themes found in the literature of all time periods and cultures, such as trickster characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conveys universal themes found in the literature of all time periods and cultures, such as trickster characters. 19. What does Beowulf take from Grendel as his trophy? A) Grendel's leg. B) Grendel's heart. C) Grendel's arm. D) Grendel's head. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grendel's arm. 20. What did Beowulf throw over one of the rafters as a symbol of his victory in battle? A) The skinned fur of Grendel's coat. B) His cloak. C) His sword. D) Grendel's arm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grendel's arm. 21. Which century was this story written? A) 16. B) 17. C) 26. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 6. 22. To wail means ..... A) Heavy sobbing or crying. B) To run fast. C) A move you do on the bench while watching a sports game. D) To catch whales. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heavy sobbing or crying. 23. When the Romans invaded Britain, they brought with them ..... A) 2 million people who thrived into the 5th century. B) A means of peacefully transporting all of the original inhabitants of Britain to neighboring islands. C) A sense of chaos and war as they consistently attacked the countryside in search of gold. D) Well-ordered civilization of roads, schools, towns, and trade. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Well-ordered civilization of roads, schools, towns, and trade. 24. What is the extraordinary ability most common to epic heroes like Perseus, Achilles, and Hercules? A) Superhuman Strength. B) Power of Invisibility. C) Shapeshifting. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Superhuman Strength. 25. Explain how the use of diazeugma in Beowulf enhances the imagery and descriptive language in the text. A) It slows down the pace of the text, making it harder to follow. B) It confuses the reader by jumbling unrelated actions together. C) It creates a sense of rhythm and flow in the text, connecting multiple actions or ideas in a single sentence. D) It creates a disjointed and choppy effect, disrupting the flow of the narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It creates a sense of rhythm and flow in the text, connecting multiple actions or ideas in a single sentence. 26. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers is an example of A) Litotes. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 27. Where is the story of Beowulf set? A) Sweden. B) Denmark. C) Norway. D) Finland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denmark. 28. The lofty mountain proved difficult to scale.I this sentence, lofty means ..... A) Medium. B) Low. C) High. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) High. 29. Give the meaning:heedless A) Careless. B) Useless. C) Unspoken. D) Carefully. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Careless. 30. Which theme fits best?-Beowulf never tries to be better than King Hrothgar A) Revenge. B) Hospitality. C) Reputation. D) Loyalty. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Loyalty. 31. Darkness, thick mist A) Wilt. B) Repute. C) Murk. D) Scorn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Murk. 32. Who was the only victim of Grendel's mother? A) Hrothgar. B) Edgetho. C) Esher. D) Higlac. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Esher. 33. After Beowulf died, he asked that his men ..... A) Build a tower to honor him. B) Spit the dragon's treasure among themselves. C) Make Grendel the king. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Build a tower to honor him. 34. Who was Grendel and what did he do? A) It was a monster that was bothered by the music in the palace and ate the soldiers when they slept in the Herot. B) It was a monster that bothered him when the soldiers walked through the forest that surrounded the palace. C) She was the mother of a monster that devastated the mountains of Denmark. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It was a monster that was bothered by the music in the palace and ate the soldiers when they slept in the Herot. 35. A person who composed and recited epic or heroic poems, often while playing the harp, lyre, or the like A) Marsh. B) Kinsman. C) Forge. D) Bard. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bard. 36. What is a tract of open, uncultivated land called? A) Fen. B) Moor. C) Lair. D) Marsh. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Moor. 37. Sudden powerful force upward A) Surge. B) Wilt. C) Le samurai family. D) Atrocious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Surge. 38. Which term fits in this sentence:Christina used her hunting ..... to survive in the woods for a week. A) Mandate. B) Prowess. C) Boast. D) Abode. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prowess. 39. Which vocabulary term is synonymous with conceited and egotistical? A) Endow. B) Revel. C) Renown. D) Haughty. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Haughty. 40. True or False? Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words in close proximity A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 41. Beowulf died, an embarrassment to his people for his weak and disgraceful actions. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 42. Choose the best word, from this week's vocabulary list. Dedicate A) Devote. B) Devotee. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Devote. 43. Abigail and Mason are playing a word game. They need to find the adjective that describes something intending to do harm. Can you help them? A) Daunt. B) Weary. C) Malicious. D) Malice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Malicious. 44. Beowulf was written by monks. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 45. What a work/text says about a concept such as love, good, or evil. A) Suspense. B) Mood. C) Tone. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. 46. What is the aftermath of Grendel's attack? A) Rebuilding and recovery in Herot. B) Peace and prosperity in Herot. C) Destruction and loss of life in Herot. D) Grendel's capture and imprisonment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Destruction and loss of life in Herot. 47. What religious belief did the Celts, the early settlers of England, follow? A) Catholicism. B) Paganism. C) Christianity. D) Buddhism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paganism. 48. The part of Grendel, Beowulf removed in battle. A) Eye. B) Shoulder and arm. C) Leg. D) Tongue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shoulder and arm. 49. The English language seems to begin when who leaves Britain? (ELAGSE11-12RL9; DOK2) A) The Jutes. B) The Angles. C) The Saxons. D) The Romans. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Romans. 50. What type of legal system did the Anglo-Saxons lay the foundation for? A) Modern Greek. B) Modern English. C) Modern Spanish. D) Modern European. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Modern English. 51. Which type of sentence includes an independent clause, and dependent clause that begins with one of the AAAWWUBBIS? A) Simple. B) Compound. C) Complex. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Complex. 52. Who is the best warrior / leader of the Geats? A) Unferth. B) Beowulf. C) Wiglaf. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beowulf. 53. Which of the following lines from a poem contains a caesura? A) "The river flowed endlessly onward.". B) "In the quiet of the night, a hush fell.". C) "The stars above twinkled so brightly.". D) "The sun set low in the western sky.". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "In the quiet of the night, a hush fell.". 54. Something ..... is well-known, sometimes even legendary. A) Storied. B) Respited. C) Fenned. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Storied. 55. How did mead halls contribute to the social structure of Anglo-Saxon society? A) Mead halls contributed to the social structure by fostering community and reinforcing social bonds. B) Mead halls contributed to the social structure by providing a place for individual solitude and isolation. C) Mead halls contributed to the social structure by promoting competition and division among community members. D) Mead halls contributed to the social structure by weakening social bonds and causing conflict among community members. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mead halls contributed to the social structure by fostering community and reinforcing social bonds. 56. Examine where Beowulf came from? A) Geatland. B) Distorted. C) Denmark. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Geatland. 57. Beowulf's last battle is against: A) Grendel's Mother. B) A fire-breathing dragon. C) Sea monsters. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A fire-breathing dragon. 58. How many men did Beowulf take with him in search of the dragon? A) 7. B) 11. C) He went alone. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 11. 59. Which of the following did the Romans NOT build while in Great Britain? A) A defensive wall. B) Villas and public baths. C) A monument and memorial to Caesar. D) A network of roads. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A monument and memorial to Caesar. 60. What is "lofe" ? A) Superhuman strength. B) Redemption. C) Kinsmanship. D) Glory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Glory. ← 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