Beowulf Quiz 143 (20 MCQs)

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1. A reprisal is .....

Correct Answer: A) Punishment.

2. What is the first section of the epic poem Beowulf about?

Correct Answer: D) Beowulf fighting Grendel.

3. What is the name of the mead hall in Beowulf?

Correct Answer: A) Heorot.

4. In the phrase "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, " what literary device is primarily used?

Correct Answer: C) Alliteration.

5. Roiseterer

Correct Answer: D) Rioters.

6. What was common during this time?

Correct Answer: A) War and disease outbreak.

7. In the 8th century, ? arrived and invaded and looted Denmark

Correct Answer: D) The Vikings.

8. European literature from roughly 500 to 1500 CE is called by what name?

Correct Answer: B) Medieval literature.

9. "Sea-road" and "word-hoard" are examples of what figure of speech?

Correct Answer: A) Kennings.

10. Who won the battle between Beowulf and Grendel's mother?

Correct Answer: A) Beowulf.

11. How long has Grendel terrorized the Danes?

Correct Answer: B) 12 winters.

12. What is an example of a kenning?

Correct Answer: A) Whale-road.

13. Formed or developed from something else

Correct Answer: C) Derived.

14. Round Character

Correct Answer: A) Varied and contradictory traits.

15. Swamp, marshy bog

Correct Answer: A) Fen.

16. What was did Beowulf say in his dying speech?

Correct Answer: B) He passed his kingship to Wiglaf and told him he wanted his tomb to be a tower that seaman would see from far away.

17. If you intrude on people without their permission, you are an .....

Correct Answer: A) Interloper.

18. Who attacked after Beowulf fought Grendel?

Correct Answer: D) Grendel's mother.

19. Melted away; transformed into liquid

Correct Answer: C) Dissolved.

20. The ..... was stationed outside the castle to keep watch overnight.

Correct Answer: C) Sentinel.