Beowulf Quiz 127 (20 MCQs)

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1. What does every warrior know is inevitable?

Correct Answer: C) Death.

2. How long has Beowulf been King of the Geats since we last met him?

Correct Answer: C) 50 years.

3. What does Wiglaf say will be the punishment for the soldiers who abandoned Beowulf when he needed them most?

Correct Answer: C) They will live in shame and the people of the kingdom will hate them.

4. How did the Anglo-Saxons tell their stories?

Correct Answer: C) Oral tradition.

5. Tendon; ligament

Correct Answer: D) Sinew.

6. A ..... is a situation that's hard to get out of.

Correct Answer: C) Plight.

7. Scop

Correct Answer: C) Old English term for poet.

8. Which term is NOT a synonym for ENDOWED?

Correct Answer: B) Insufficient.

9. In Beowulf, when he returns to Geatland, how does he show his loyalty to the king?

Correct Answer: C) He gives his treasures to the king.

10. Who is terrorizing Heorot at the beginning of the story?

Correct Answer: D) Grendel.

11. What is an antonym for Lament?

Correct Answer: C) Whisper.

12. A banquet is a.....

Correct Answer: B) A nice dinner.

13. Who was the leader of the Anglo-Saxons?

Correct Answer: A) King.

14. Who asks to fight the monster?

Correct Answer: C) Beowulf.

15. In the sentence, "The detective stealthily stalked the suspect through the dark alley, " what does "stalked" mean?

Correct Answer: D) Followed secretly and deliberately.

16. The village dogs began to ..... in unison at the full moon.

Correct Answer: A) Wail.

17. Lives in the swamps and seeks to avenge her son's death.

Correct Answer: D) Grendel's mother.

18. The maggots that show up in the outside trash can in the summer are .....

Correct Answer: A) Loathsome.

19. Some of the characters in the poem actually existed.

Correct Answer: A) True.

20. Make a deliberate distortion of the facial muscles often to express irony or mockery

Correct Answer: C) Wry.