This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Beowulf – Quiz 134 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Beowulf Quiz 134 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who stayed loyal to Beowulf after he was defeated and killed the dragon? A) Wiglaf. B) Hrothgar. C) Grendel. D) Alex. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wiglaf. 2. For which of the following would you most likely have to make reparation? A) Taking a test. B) Going to the beach. C) Betraying a friend. D) Painting a portrait. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Betraying a friend. 3. Define county. A) System of loyalty where everyone protects the king at all costs even if it means a warrior giving up his own life. B) Every man has a value attached to his life, and this must be repaid if he is killed. C) Repetition of the initial consonant sound. D) Two words joined together to take on a new metaphorical meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) System of loyalty where everyone protects the king at all costs even if it means a warrior giving up his own life. 4. The text also mentions a psychological reason that Grendel might hate the men of Heorot so much. What is that reason? A) Grendel is a distorted and ugly version of a man. B) Grendel want to get married and have children. C) Grendel is angry that he still lives at home with his mother. D) Grendel has to live in a murky lake instead of a nice mead hall. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grendel is a distorted and ugly version of a man. 5. Great happiness A) Coffer. B) Scud. C) Felicity. D) Maw. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Felicity. 6. A reference to the bible A) Biblical allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Theme. D) Honor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biblical allusion. 7. Grendel caused problems for the Danes for A) A decade. B) 20 years. C) One winter. D) 12 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 12 years. 8. When facing his own death, Beowulf reflects on A) The treasures the dragon kept. B) His friends the Danes. C) His ideals about peace, justice, and honor. D) How unsuccessful his life was. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His ideals about peace, justice, and honor. 9. Shame he reckoned it, sharer-of-rings, to follow the flyer-afar with a host, a broad-flung band; nor the battle feared he, nor deemed he dreadful the dragon's warring, its vigor and valor:ventures desperate he had passed a-plenty, and perils of war, contest-crash, since, conqueror proud, Hrothgar's hall he had wholly purged, and in grapple had killed the kin of Grendel, loathsome breed! 1. Which of these is a kenning? A) Passed a-plenty. B) Killed the kin. C) Sharer of rings. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sharer of rings. 10. It is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series. A) Mail. B) Fleeing. C) Boast. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 11. Where can you find the original copy of "Beowulf?" A) It no longer exists. B) In the United States private archives. C) On display in a church in London. D) On display in a London museum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) On display in a London museum. 12. Who built Herot Hall? A) Hrunting. B) Hrothgar. C) Higlac. D) Wiglaf. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hrothgar. 13. What was the heroic ideal? A) Excellence. B) Laziness. C) Romance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Excellence. 14. A very long poem with a larger than life hero is called a ..... A) Sonnet. B) Epic. C) Lymeric. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epic. 15. Greatest and strongest of the Geats A) Higlac. B) Beowulf. C) Wiglaf. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beowulf. 16. What sort of problem is Beowulf having to deal with in his kingdom; even in advanced age? A) A god. B) A dragon. C) A warlord. D) Problems? Beowulf doesn't have problems. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A dragon. 17. Gendel represents A) Good. B) Evil. C) Heroism. D) Intelligence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Evil. 18. How does Beowulf defeat Grendel, and what happens to Grendel? A) Beheads him with a magic sword, and he dies immediately. B) His thanes ambush Grendel when he enters the mead hall and kills him. C) Rips his arm off, and Grendel goes back to his lair and dies there. D) Grendel is burned to death in his own fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rips his arm off, and Grendel goes back to his lair and dies there. 19. Beowulf's countrymen are encouraging him to do what in these lines? "This my earls then urged me, the most excellent of them, Carles very clever, to come and assist thee, Folk-leader Hrothgar; fully they knew ofThe strength of my body." A) To defeat Hrothgar. B) To show how strong he was. C) To defeat Grendel. D) To assist in taking down Scyldings. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To defeat Grendel. 20. Definition = provided, supplied, or equipped with (especially as by inheritance or nature) A) Revel. B) Renown. C) Prowess. D) Endow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Endow. ← 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