Beowulf Quiz 133 (20 MCQs)

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1. Beowulf was brought by emigrating Germanic tribes and was passed down

Correct Answer: A) In oral form.

2. Why does Grendel's mother attack Herot in Beowulf?

Correct Answer: D) To seek revenge on Beowulf, who killed her sonj.

3. What is the name of the mead hall that Grendel terrorizes?

Correct Answer: B) Distorted.

4. "Up from his swampland, sliding silently" This line is an example of .....

Correct Answer: B) Alliteration.

5. Placement of two elements side by side so that the second identifies, clarifies, or elaborates on the first

Correct Answer: A) Apposition.

6. Which character is "The King of the Danes" ?

Correct Answer: A) Hrothgar.

7. A very old imaginative pattern that appears in literature across time and cultures.

Correct Answer: A) Archetype.

8. Which of the following options best describes who the "kin of Cain" are in the text (page 5)?

Correct Answer: C) They are the monstrous, exiled descendants of the outcast Cain.

9. What do you call a pile of wood or combustible material on which a corpse is burned as part of a funeral ceremony?

Correct Answer: D) Pyre.

10. What did Beowulf hang in Heorot to remind the Danes about the battle he faced?

Correct Answer: C) Grendel's Arm.

11. Beowulf is a myth

Correct Answer: B) False.

12. Climax

Correct Answer: D) Turning point/ Conflict faced head-on.

13. Why doesn't Beowulf want people to think he is a saint?

Correct Answer: C) He is not perfect.

14. Help from a god/supernatural force taking interest in a hero's quest

Correct Answer: B) Divine intervention.

15. When the narrator tells the reader that Beowulf's fight with the dragon will be his last, this is an exa mple of

Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing.

16. Grendel's mother lived .....

Correct Answer: B) Underwater.

17. Who stayed loyal to Beowulf after he was defeated and killed the dragon?

Correct Answer: A) Wiglaf.

18. For which of the following would you most likely have to make reparation?

Correct Answer: C) Betraying a friend.

19. Define county.

Correct Answer: A) System of loyalty where everyone protects the king at all costs even if it means a warrior giving up his own life.

20. The text also mentions a psychological reason that Grendel might hate the men of Heorot so much. What is that reason?

Correct Answer: A) Grendel is a distorted and ugly version of a man.