Beowulf Quiz 135 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

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1. An opinion held of someone

Correct Answer: A) Repute.

2. A burial cloth

Correct Answer: B) Shroud (n).

3. Beowulf is written in Middle English

Correct Answer: B) False.

4. Arrangement of the parts of an image, whether drawn or recorded in some other visual format

Correct Answer: D) Composition.

5. Why does the story of Beowulf begin and end with a funeral?

Correct Answer: C) It explains the circle of life, that death is inevitable. You cannot outrun fate.

6. This loyal friend to Beowulf inherits Beowulf's kingdom.

Correct Answer: A) Wiglaf.

7. This weapon fails Beowulf during his last battle:

Correct Answer: C) His sword.

8. Who stays loyal to Beowulf?

Correct Answer: B) Wiglaf.

9. Grendel's mother also carries off

Correct Answer: A) Grendel's arm.

10. Guilty ones, criminals, felons

Correct Answer: A) Culprits.

11. The Geats lived in present-day .....

Correct Answer: D) Sweden.

12. Beowulf is the oldest poem in the English language.

Correct Answer: A) True.

13. Rome provided ..... to a dark European world.

Correct Answer: B) Darkness.

14. As Beowulf dies, he asks Wiglaf and the men to

Correct Answer: B) Split the dragon's treasure among themselves.

15. What is the new position Beowulf is given?

Correct Answer: A) Heir to the Geat throne (where Beowulf is from).

16. How many men did Beowulf take with him to Herot?

Correct Answer: B) 14.

17. Find the diazeugma in the below lines?

Correct Answer: C) Heard under helmet his heart then prompted.

18. What type of literature is an epic?

Correct Answer: D) Poem.

19. S.T.E.A.L.

Correct Answer: A) Speech Thoughts Effects on Others Actions Looks.

20. ..... is angry that Grendel is defeated because he found Grendel's evil fascinating.

Correct Answer: C) Unferth.