Beowulf Quiz 45 (20 MCQs)

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1. A time of great social, political and economic turmoil in Europe is?

Correct Answer: C) The Dark Ages.

2. Tense or tightly fixed.

Correct Answer: C) Taut.

3. (adj.) Evil in nature, influence, effect

Correct Answer: D) Malignant.

4. Which poetic device utilizes the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words?

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

5. An act of retaliation for a wrong

Correct Answer: C) Reprisal.

6. Making twisting, squirming movements of the body

Correct Answer: C) Writhing.

7. What did Beowulf do when he saw Grendel's dead body in the corner of his lair?

Correct Answer: C) He cut off his head, along with Grendel's mother's head.

8. Beowulf defeated Grendel by ripping off his?

Correct Answer: C) Arm.

9. At the feast in Heorot, Unferth speaks "contrary words" (line 501) against Beowulf. Of what does Unferth accuse Beowulf?

Correct Answer: B) Vanity.

10. Armor made of chains

Correct Answer: D) Mail.

11. Epics contain information about the culture that created them.

Correct Answer: A) True.

12. Who killed Aeschere?

Correct Answer: B) Unferth.

13. Where is Beowulf from?

Correct Answer: B) Germany.

14. Who probably wrote Beowulf?

Correct Answer: D) An anonymous Anglo Saxon monk.

15. What does Geats do with the dreagon's treasure?

Correct Answer: A) Bury in with Beowulf.

16. Who were the individuals that performed and/or sung poems from memory in Old English.

Correct Answer: C) Scopes.

17. Ill will, cruelty

Correct Answer: B) Malice.

18. A paid servant; soldier who was supported by someone of high rank

Correct Answer: C) Retainers.

19. Beowulf's men are of no help to him because

Correct Answer: B) Their weapons are useless.

20. Who/What was Hrothgar?

Correct Answer: B) King of the Danes.