This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Beowulf – Quiz 144 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Beowulf Quiz 144 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In an appropriate or proper manner A) Resolute. B) Duly. C) Plight. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Duly. 2. What is foreshadowing? A) A clue about what's going to happen later in the story. B) A reference to something famous outside the text. C) The repetition of initial sounds of words (when words start with the same sound). D) A two-word phrase that renames something by its characteristics (often hyphenated); always acts as a noun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A clue about what's going to happen later in the story. 3. Reread lines 35-38 from Beowulf for a specific feature of Old English poetry. The author substitutes the name Grendel with the kenning God-cursed brute in order to-and human sorrow. Suddenly thenthe God-cursed brute was creating havoc:greedy and grim, he grabbed thirty menfrom their resting places and rushed to his lair, A) Emphasize the depth of Grendel's evil. B) Describe the havoc Grendel creates in detail for the reader. C) Show the reader that Grendel presents no real challenge. D) Stress the excess of Grendel's greed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emphasize the depth of Grendel's evil. 4. What are the major themes in Beowulf? A) Technology, innovation, and progress. B) The major themes in Beowulf include heroism, loyalty, fate, and the struggle between good and evil. C) Love, betrayal, and forgiveness. D) Loneliness, isolation, and despair. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The major themes in Beowulf include heroism, loyalty, fate, and the struggle between good and evil. 5. The battle was over, Beowulf had been granted new glory:How? A) Beowulf sliced Grendel's head clean off with a Samurai sword. B) Beowulf dodged Grendel's blow and caused Grendel to slip and fall headlong. C) Beowulf snapped Grendel's shoulder shredding muscle and splitting bone causing perfused bleeding and writhing pain. D) Beowulf stamped on Grendel's head with his boot and crushed his skull skishing his eyeballs and caving in his nose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beowulf snapped Grendel's shoulder shredding muscle and splitting bone causing perfused bleeding and writhing pain. 6. True or False:Beowulf defeats Grendel with his bare hands A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. Anglo-Saxons were skillful builders and craftsmen with a love for beauty. "Hrothgar's wise men had fashioned Herot to stand forever; only ..... could shatter what such skill had put together ..... " A) A magnificent fight of this sort. B) Thunder and lightning. C) Battering rams. D) Fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fire. 8. What should NOT be in a lead paragraph? A) Where?. B) Will?. C) Why?. D) When?. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Will?. 9. Choose a synonym for the word Comrade A) Enemy. B) Friend. C) Dance. D) Coffee. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Friend. 10. Who becomes king after Beowulf dies? A) Unferth. B) Higlac. C) Hrothgar. D) Wiglaf. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wiglaf. 11. Beowulf and Grendel are compared in Canto 19 as ..... A) Man vs. Monster. B) Human vs. Beast. C) Good vs. Evil. D) Right vs. Wrong. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Good vs. Evil. 12. What does Beowulf say he will do? A) Defeat Grendel. B) Swim across the English Channel. C) Buy a flagon of mead for everyone in the hall. D) Marry Hrothgar's daughter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Defeat Grendel. 13. Beowulf's Hero Journey:Beowulf responds to reports about the attacks on Heorot. A) Approach. B) Call to Adventure. C) Departure. D) Trials. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Call to Adventure. 14. Where was Grendel's arm hung? A) Above the entrance to the town. B) At the door of the party room. C) In the town church. D) In the tallest tower in town. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) At the door of the party room. 15. Beowulf has been translated several times, but was originally written in Old English A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 16. Prefixes occur..... A) At the beginning of a word. B) In the middle of the word. C) At the end of the word. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) At the beginning of a word. 17. To take for granted, assume, or suppose A) Absorb. B) Agitate. C) Presume. D) Purport. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Presume. 18. What does Beowulf think has happened to Unferth? A) He ran away. B) He is dead. C) He is asleep. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He is dead. 19. Beowulf's first clue that he will not survive the battle is when he realizes how weak this is: A) His shield. B) His sword. C) Himself. D) His armor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His shield. 20. In what way does the story of Beowulf represent transitions in the world of those who created and told the story? A) They stopped writing the story down as time went on. B) Their world went from calm and orderly to violent and wild. C) The people began to question their violent way of life. D) They went from illiterate and Pagan, to literate and Christian. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They went from illiterate and Pagan, to literate and Christian. ← 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