This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Beowulf – Quiz 135 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Beowulf Quiz 135 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. At the end of Cantos 20-21, Beowulf agrees to ..... A) Return home to Geatland to gather an army. B) Fight Grendel's mother. C) Talk to Grendel's mother and come to an agreement. D) Help rebuild the farms that were destroyed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fight Grendel's mother. 2. Instrument of the scops A) Lyre or harp. B) Drums and harp. C) Script. D) Small guitar and drums. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyre or harp. 3. The tabloid was sued for ..... after publishing lies about a celebrity A) Lavish. B) Extolled. C) Defamation. D) Explicate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Defamation. 4. What is the hero's name in the text "Beowulf" ? A) Edgetheow. B) Beowulf. C) Grendel. D) Hrothgar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beowulf. 5. An opinion held of someone A) Repute. B) Languish. C) Resolute. D) Baleful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repute. 6. A burial cloth A) Sentinel (n). B) Shroud (n). C) Purge (v). D) Mail-shirt (n). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shroud (n). 7. Beowulf is written in Middle English A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 8. Arrangement of the parts of an image, whether drawn or recorded in some other visual format A) Angle. B) Lighting/color. C) Perspective. D) Composition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Composition. 9. Why does the story of Beowulf begin and end with a funeral? A) To show Beowulf was just like other kings. B) To show Beowulf's loyalty one final time. C) It explains the circle of life, that death is inevitable. You cannot outrun fate. D) To show Beowulf's death was honorable, just as the original king, Shield's was. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It explains the circle of life, that death is inevitable. You cannot outrun fate. 10. This loyal friend to Beowulf inherits Beowulf's kingdom. A) Wiglaf. B) Wealthow. C) Ashes. D) Unferth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wiglaf. 11. This weapon fails Beowulf during his last battle: A) His shield. B) His helmet. C) His sword. D) His chain mail. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His sword. 12. Who stays loyal to Beowulf? A) Grendel. B) Wiglaf. C) Hrothgar. D) Shrek. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wiglaf. 13. Grendel's mother also carries off A) Grendel's arm. B) Hrothgar's favorite dog. C) Hrothgar's treasure. D) Hrothgar's son. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grendel's arm. 14. Guilty ones, criminals, felons A) Culprits. B) Vengeance. C) Lurked. D) Ogres. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Culprits. 15. The Geats lived in present-day ..... A) Denmark. B) England. C) Finland. D) Sweden. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sweden. 16. Beowulf is the oldest poem in the English language. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 17. Rome provided ..... to a dark European world. A) Civilization. B) Darkness. C) Light. D) Corruption. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Darkness. 18. As Beowulf dies, he asks Wiglaf and the men to A) Bury him with Grendel's head. B) Split the dragon's treasure among themselves. C) Build a tower to honor him. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Split the dragon's treasure among themselves. 19. What is the new position Beowulf is given? A) Heir to the Geat throne (where Beowulf is from). B) Manager of Applebees. C) Heir to the Danes (where Beowulf is leaving). D) Big Papa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heir to the Geat throne (where Beowulf is from). 20. How many men did Beowulf take with him to Herot? A) 0. B) 14. C) 30. D) His whole army. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 14. ← 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