Beowulf Quiz 21 (20 MCQs)

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1. Plight:sorry state, predicament, quandary

Correct Answer: A) Synonym.

2. What is the name of the monster who attacks the mead hall?

Correct Answer: C) Grendel.

3. Pagan means

Correct Answer: C) NATURE GOD.

4. Beowulf is .....

Correct Answer: B) Leader, warrior of the Danes.

5. Why do so many people come to see "the monster's / Great staggering tracks" ?

Correct Answer: C) To see that Grendel is actually dead and witness Beowulf's heroism.

6. Merlin raised Arthur as his own son.

Correct Answer: B) False.

7. People who live across the sea and help defeat the monster (Grendel)

Correct Answer: C) Geats.

8. To purge something is to

Correct Answer: B) Get rid of it.

9. "We will walk within the woods, " is an example of .....

Correct Answer: B) Alliteration.

10. Which was the first monster that beowulf defeated?

Correct Answer: B) Grendel.

11. Although Chuck wanted an 'A' in the class, he was ..... with a 'B'.

Correct Answer: C) Complacent.

12. Before the night of the battle, the Danes and the Geats decide to hold a .....

Correct Answer: C) Banquet.

13. Herot is the name of .....

Correct Answer: C) Hrothgar's mead hall.

14. (n) a chain or manacle used to restrain a prisoner

Correct Answer: A) Fetters.

15. How did Beowulf defeat Grendel

Correct Answer: B) He ripped his arm off.

16. In the sentence, "The crime scene was a gruesome sight, " what does "gruesome" mean?

Correct Answer: C) Shockingly horrible or disgusting.

17. In Unferth's opinion, who won the swimming match?

Correct Answer: D) Breca.

18. Who buried the dragon's treasure hoard?

Correct Answer: A) An ancient civilization destroyed by war.

19. Which of the following options is NOT a synonym for fetter?

Correct Answer: D) Scandalous.

20. Grendel and his mother descend from whom?

Correct Answer: D) Cain.