Beowulf Quiz 125 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

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1. To perplex or confuse.

Correct Answer: C) Bewilder.

2. This man challenges Beowulf at the feast and is shamed by him.

Correct Answer: B) Unferth.

3. If you're cramming for exams, take an occasional walk to give yourself a respite from the intensity.In this sentence, respite means .....

Correct Answer: A) Pause.

4. Grendel's attacks are inhuman and un-heroic for all of the following reasons EXCEPT the fact that he

Correct Answer: E) Attacks at night.

5. What did Beowulf give Wiglaf?

Correct Answer: B) A collar of gold.

6. What is Beowulf's home?

Correct Answer: D) Geatland/Sweden.

7. What destiny, greater than death, does Wiglaf declare for the men who fled when Beowulf fought the dragon?

Correct Answer: C) They and their descendants would be known as cowards.

8. Grendel begins his massacre in Herot because.....

Correct Answer: C) He is tired of hearing them party.

9. Which of the following is a pause that divides a line of poetry into two parts?

Correct Answer: B) Cesura.

10. The poet remains objective and omniscient.

Correct Answer: A) True.

11. Which era of the English language was used by Shakespeare?

Correct Answer: C) Early Modern.

12. While boasting, Beowulf claims to already have accomplished

Correct Answer: A) Getting rid of trolls.

13. What is diction?

Correct Answer: D) Style of speaking or writing, determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer.

14. What is the role of foreshadowing in Beowulf?

Correct Answer: A) To indicate events that will happen later in the story.

15. Describe exulting.

Correct Answer: A) Rejoicing greatly.

16. Who Said it: "' It takes an evil nose to smell the devil ..... " and who is it about

Correct Answer: D) Hrothgar about Unferth.

17. How does Grendel's mother avenge her son's death?

Correct Answer: B) She kills Aeshere, the king's advisor.

18. "Let me give you a hand." The word hand actually means help. This is an example of

Correct Answer: C) Metonymy.

19. Since I bare no ..... towards you, I do not understand why we cannot be friends.

Correct Answer: C) Malice.

20. Like the Greek goddess Aphrodite, Freyya was the Norse goddess of

Correct Answer: C) Love and beauty.