This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Beowulf – Quiz 185 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Beowulf Quiz 185 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. (n) a soldier or guard whose job is to stand and keep watch A) Dagger. B) Sentinel. C) Spit. D) Hilt. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sentinel. 2. Breaking a mirror is a bad ..... of 7 years bad luck A) Omen. B) Wrath. C) Sinews. D) Spawn. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Omen. 3. Unable to make mistakes or be wrong is: A) Alliteration. B) Infallible. C) Extolled. D) Archetype. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Infallible. 4. Clove A) Cut or sever. B) Quickly. C) To make complete. D) Rioters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cut or sever. 5. During the Dark Ages, a time of great social, political, and economic turmoil, what was the strongest surviving institution? A) The Roman Empire. B) Roman Catholic Church. C) Church of England. D) The British Monarchy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Roman Catholic Church. 6. The opposite of enervate is: A) Deceive. B) Invigorate. C) Amuse. D) Eradicate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Invigorate. 7. Which element of an epic is most clearly illustrated in this excerpt?"Quickly, the dragon came at him, encouragedAs Beowulf fell back; its breath flared, And he suffered, wrapped around in swirlingFlames ..... a king, before, but nowA beaten warrior. A) Episodic structure. B) Serious, elevated language. C) Extreme conflict. D) Repetition used to intensify the mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Extreme conflict. 8. (noun) a claw A) Infamous. B) Talon. C) Gorge. D) Affliction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Talon. 9. Mark put on criminals with a hot iron, mark of disgrace, A) Brand. B) Bear. C) Crammed. D) Hoard. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brand. 10. Define the italicized word: "how there came a dragon to confound his quiet." A) Conquer. B) Cause confusion or surprise. C) Send on a journey. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cause confusion or surprise. 11. Which characteristic does not describe Beowulf? A) Brave/Courageous. B) Loyal / Strong sense of duty. C) Tender hearted. D) Strong leader. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tender hearted. 12. How does Beowulf hear of the Danes terror with Grendel? A) When he visits Herot on a trip to find weapons. B) From his brother who traveled to that land. C) From a spirit that visits him in his sleep and reveals it through a dream. D) By word of mouth, over the passage of time, he hears of the events. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) By word of mouth, over the passage of time, he hears of the events. 13. Classify the structure of the following sentence:Jessica went to the park with her grandpa last week. A) Simple. B) Compound. C) Complex. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simple. 14. Who was the only remaining person in Herot who was still awake? A) Hrothgar. B) Wealhtheow. C) Unferth. D) Beowulf. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unferth. 15. What is enjambment? A) A type of poetic meter. B) A rhyming scheme in poetry. C) The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. D) A figure of speech in poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. 16. Where does the final battle with Grendel take place? A) Hrothgar's mead hall. B) Grendel's cave lair. C) Beowulf's castle. D) Wulfar's beach. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hrothgar's mead hall. 17. Who opposes Beowulf out of envy? A) Grendl. B) Hrothgar. C) Unferth. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unferth. 18. Anglo-Saxon fame: A) Lof. B) Fama. C) Glory. D) Fame. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lof. 19. What is one of the characteristics of an epic? A) The plot is easy. B) The plot is complicated. C) The heroe is generally a female. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The plot is complicated. 20. When Wiglaf says, "I remember how we sat in the mead-hall, drinking And boasting of how brave we'd be when Beowulf Needed us ..... " he scolding the Geats for not standing up for which Anglo-Saxon values? A) Strength and Intelligence. B) Community and Lineage. C) Courage and Loyalty. D) Creativity and Innovation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Courage and Loyalty. ← 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