Beowulf Quiz 145 (20 MCQs)

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1. A collection of plant material bound together

Correct Answer: A) Sheaf.

2. What does Beowulf do to Grendel?

Correct Answer: C) Rips his arm off.

3. Grendel's parents are.....

Correct Answer: A) Monsters.

4. What is the chemical in turkey that people say makes you tired?

Correct Answer: B) Tryptophan.

5. How does Grendel's mother get revenge for her son's death?

Correct Answer: A) She kills one of Hrothgar's friends.

6. What do the Geats burn?

Correct Answer: B) The dragon's treasure.

7. Wiglaf was mad at the other warriors because they wouldn't help Beowulf.

Correct Answer: A) True.

8. "Grendel struggled:-his grudges he cherished" is mostly an example of which Anglo-Saxon poetic device?

Correct Answer: B) Cesura.

9. A hero is favored by the

Correct Answer: A) Gods.

10. Carouse

Correct Answer: C) Engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking.

11. Who is the one warrior who helps Beowulf fight the dragon?

Correct Answer: A) Wiglaf.

12. Relative social or professional standing

Correct Answer: B) Status.

13. Shepherd of evil, guardian of crime, ring giver

Correct Answer: E) Theory.

14. Beowulf fits which definition of a hero?

Correct Answer: B) An extraordinary person with noble qualities.

15. Why does Unferth want revenge?

Correct Answer: A) Beowulf killed Grendel.

16. At the very top of APA papers is required a .....

Correct Answer: A) Header.

17. Completely fill (a place or container) to the point that it appears to be overflowing.

Correct Answer: C) Crammed.

18. Define mail

Correct Answer: C) Flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings.

19. Christianity and Buddaism are two religions that influence Anglo-Saxon literature.

Correct Answer: B) False.

20. When the Romans left England in 410, what influences did they leave behind?

Correct Answer: A) Christianity, walls, and literacy.