This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Epic > Beowulf – Quiz 136 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Beowulf Quiz 136 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which line describes Grendel's mother's reason for terrorizing the Danes? A) Grendel's mother, a monster woman, she who lived in the terrible water, the cold streams, thought of her misery. B) She took her son's famous blood-covered hand. C) So she came to Herot where the Danes slept in the hall. The fortunes of the noble ones changed when Grendel's mother got inside. D) Grendel fell in battle, forfeited his life, and now another has come, a mighty man-eater to avenge her kin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grendel fell in battle, forfeited his life, and now another has come, a mighty man-eater to avenge her kin. 2. When a character steps out of a scene to address the audience about how they are feeling A) Soliloquy. B) Thought track. C) Breaking the fourth wall. D) Direct address. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thought track. 3. Which word means to crouch in fear or shame? A) Lair. B) Cower. C) Purge. D) Infamous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cower. 4. A hero is usually a person of high social standing like a great warrior or a ..... A) God. B) Mortal. C) Child. D) King. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) King. 5. My cat is always on the hunt to ..... the barn of mice A) Purge. B) Laud. C) Loathsome. D) Afflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Purge. 6. What does twisting and turning mean? A) Tumbling. B) Spiraling. C) Churning. D) Writhing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Writhing. 7. Which of the following was not one of the Anglo-Saxon's pagan gods? A) Thor, God of Thunder. B) Woden, God of Battle. C) Tiw, God of Sky. D) Merp, God of Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Merp, God of Sea. 8. What did Grendel's mum call Beowulf? A) Handsome. B) Smelly. C) Kind. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Smelly. 9. Unferth's skepticism about Beowulf's sea adventure hints at what heroic trait as a potential flaw? A) Strength. B) Reckless daring. C) Noble parentage. D) Luck. E) Pride. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reckless daring. 10. How did Grendel's mother die? A) Beowulf set her on fire. B) Beowulf used his own personal sword and stabbed her in the heart. C) Used a weapon blessed with magic and cut off her head in one swipe. D) Took her heart out of her chest with his bare hands. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Used a weapon blessed with magic and cut off her head in one swipe. 11. Heath means: A) Cove. B) Beach. C) Moor. D) Peak. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Moor. 12. Epic poems are about ..... people doing ..... things. A) Regular, uneventful. B) Extraordinary, extraordinary. C) Exciting, bland. D) Mediocre, adequate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Extraordinary, extraordinary. 13. Beowulf was written during a period of history known as The Dark Ages. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 14. Which vocabulary term is synonymous with luminary & expert? A) Sage. B) Haughty. C) Endow. D) Laud. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sage. 15. According to the Beowulf poet, the Danes cannot find solace because they A) Are not as powerful as Grendel. B) Have no religious system. C) Don't know the Christian God. D) Need a better leader. E) Have no right to fight Grendel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Don't know the Christian God. 16. What is the purpose of all the names listed in Beowulf? A) To ground the poem in reality. B) To tie Beowulf to real historical figures. C) To show the time frame the events took place in. D) All of the answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the answers are correct. 17. A long narrative poem about a the hero goes on a journey of national importance is an A) Epic hero. B) Epic poem. C) Archetype. D) Epic setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epic poem. 18. How many sea monsters did Beowulf slay? A) 50. B) 20. C) 9. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 9. 19. What literary device is characterized by the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words in close proximity? A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 20. What do Beowulf's men build as a tribute to Beowulf's memory? A) A great Viking ship. B) A mead hall even more splendid than Heorot. C) A barrow to guide sailors. D) A golden statue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A barrow to guide sailors. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesBeowulf Quiz 1Beowulf Quiz 2Beowulf Quiz 3Beowulf Quiz 4Beowulf Quiz 5Beowulf Quiz 6Beowulf Quiz 7Beowulf Quiz 8Beowulf Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books