Beowulf Quiz 45 (20 MCQs)

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1. Tense or tightly fixed.

Correct Answer: C) Taut.

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

Correct Answer: D) Malignant.

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

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

4. An act of retaliation for a wrong

Correct Answer: C) Reprisal.

5. Making twisting, squirming movements of the body

Correct Answer: C) Writhing.

6. 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.

7. Beowulf defeated Grendel by ripping off his?

Correct Answer: C) Arm.

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

Correct Answer: B) Vanity.

9. Armor made of chains

Correct Answer: D) Mail.

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

Correct Answer: A) True.

11. Who killed Aeschere?

Correct Answer: B) Unferth.

12. Where is Beowulf from?

Correct Answer: B) Germany.

13. Who probably wrote Beowulf?

Correct Answer: D) An anonymous Anglo Saxon monk.

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

Correct Answer: A) Bury in with Beowulf.

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

Correct Answer: C) Scopes.

16. Ill will, cruelty

Correct Answer: B) Malice.

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

Correct Answer: C) Retainers.

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

Correct Answer: B) Their weapons are useless.

19. Who/What was Hrothgar?

Correct Answer: B) King of the Danes.

20. What does the word 'voyage' refer to?

Correct Answer: D) A movement or journey.