This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Beowulf – Quiz 193 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Beowulf Quiz 193 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Retaliate means to: A) Remark. B) Redeem. C) Revenge. D) Recollect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Revenge. 2. Which poetic device is a metaphorical compound word or phrase substituted for a thing or a name? A) Alliteration. B) Cesura. C) Theory. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theory. 3. Who would have Beowulf liked to have given his armor to? A) To his uncle. B) To his son, if he had one. C) To Hrgother. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To his son, if he had one. 4. What were the prominent characteristics of Epic Poetry? A) Bravery and Valor. B) Battle and Celebration. C) Good versus Evil. D) Beowulf encountering Grendel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bravery and Valor. 5. What is the name of the monster that Beowulf fights in the second battle? A) Grendel. B) Hrothgar. C) Distorted. D) Grendel's mother. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grendel's mother. 6. Renounce means to: A) Remember. B) Revise. C) Respect. D) Resign. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Resign. 7. The subject or idea that is raised in a story A) Theme. B) Plot. C) Narrative. D) Story. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 8. How many prologues Beowulf contain? A) 42 subsequent books. B) 43 subsequent books. C) 41 subsequent books. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 43 subsequent books. 9. In the given excerpt, which of the following words is a context clue for loathsome? " ..... and running to his loathsome moor [land] with another such sickening meal waiting in his pouch." (lines 538-40) A) Meal. B) Running. C) Sickening. D) Waiting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sickening. 10. Which character serves as Beowulf's mentor? A) Grendel. B) Wiglaf. C) Edgetheow. D) Hrothgar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hrothgar. 11. . The conflict between Christian and heroic values is a sense of tension within this epic poem A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 12. Kevin had a ..... and had to be taken in away in an ambulance. A) Boast. B) Fate. C) Abduct. D) Positive deviation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Positive deviation. 13. Resolute means: A) Firm. B) Royal. C) Hostile. D) Frenzied. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Firm. 14. Using the sentence below, the correct definition of fen is:The music of the harp and the happy shouting of the warriors echoed out across the dark fen and drowned the crying of birds that flew in the night. A) A high mountain area. B) A night sky. C) A low, swampy, flooded area of wetland. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A low, swampy, flooded area of wetland. 15. Why do so few pieces of literature remain from this time period? A) The Christian missionaries burned everything pagan. B) The Anglo-Saxons had no form of written language. C) Poems were originally sung rather than written down. D) Everything was destroyed when the British Library flooded. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poems were originally sung rather than written down. 16. Fate plays a major part in the Anglo-Saxon pagan culture. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 17. Beowulf's only loyal follower is A) Ashes. B) Wealhtheow. C) Wiglaf. D) Hygelac. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wiglaf. 18. Mourn:grieve, ache for, anguish A) Synonym. B) Antonym. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synonym. 19. Grendel is not human. Thus, A) He stands at the threshold of becoming. B) Fear of him is really a kind of desire. C) He polices the borders of the possible. D) He dwells at the gates of difference. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He dwells at the gates of difference. 20. "Fire-spitting terror" (line 790)"The gray-bearded lord of the Geats" (line 792)The above lines are examples of ..... A) Biblical allusions that demonstrate the importance of loyalty in Anglo-Saxon society. B) Kennings that refer to the dragon and Beowulf. C) Alliteration that emphasizes Beowulf's bravery. D) Kennings that refer to Grendel's mother and Beowulf. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kennings that refer to the dragon and Beowulf. ← 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