This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Beowulf – Quiz 133 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Beowulf Quiz 133 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The great wero warrior of the Geats. A) Wiglaf. B) Wealthow. C) Ashes. D) Beowulf. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Beowulf. 2. Wergild was also referred to as "Man Price" by the Anglo-Saxons A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 3. 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. 4. Repayment, revenge A) Foes. B) Sojourned. C) Solace. D) Requital. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Requital. 5. 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. 6. 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. 7. 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. 8. "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. 9. Placement of two elements side by side so that the second identifies, clarifies, or elaborates on the first A) Apposition. B) Angle. C) Composition. D) Perspective. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apposition. 10. Which character is "The King of the Danes" ? A) Hrothgar. B) Grendel. C) Cain. D) Beowulf. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hrothgar. 11. 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. 12. Which of the following options best describes who the "kin of Cain" are in the text (page 5)? A) They are an elite unit of Hrothgar's most valiant warriors. B) They are monsters recruited by Cain to unleash havoc on the world. C) They are the monstrous, exiled descendants of the outcast Cain. D) They are Grendel's descendents, who worship Cain rather than the Christian God. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They are the monstrous, exiled descendants of the outcast Cain. 13. What do you call a pile of wood or combustible material on which a corpse is burned as part of a funeral ceremony? A) Moor. B) Fen. C) Lair. D) Pyre. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pyre. 14. What did Beowulf hang in Heorot to remind the Danes about the battle he faced? A) Grendel. B) Grendel's Head. C) Grendel's Arm. D) Grendel's Mother. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grendel's Arm. 15. Beowulf is a myth A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 16. Climax A) Conflict gets worse or more complicated. B) Conflict gets solved. C) Beginning of the story giving the chars. setting and conflict. D) Turning point/ Conflict faced head-on. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Turning point/ Conflict faced head-on. 17. 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. 18. 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. 19. 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) Flashback. C) Deus ex machina. D) In medias res. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 20. Grendel's mother lived ..... A) On land. B) Underwater. C) In a cave. D) At the Swan School. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Underwater. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesBeowulf Quiz 1Beowulf Quiz 2Beowulf Quiz 3Beowulf Quiz 4Beowulf Quiz 5Beowulf Quiz 6Beowulf Quiz 7Beowulf Quiz 8Beowulf Quiz 9Beowulf Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books