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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Grendel lake lined with?
(a) Tall grasses.
(b) Fierce dragons.
(c) Trees.
(d) Mountains.

2. Who does Unferth claim Beowulf lost a swimming match to?
(a) Hrothgar.
(b) Breca.
(c) Wulfgar.
(d) Unferth.

3. Who does Beowulf's guide tell him will meet them at Heorot?
(a) Unferth.
(b) Wulfgar.
(c) Grendel.
(d) Hrothgar.

4. Who do the Danes honor the one man in Beowulf's party who was killed by Grendel?
(a) With a song by the minstrel.
(b) With a poem in his honor.
(c) They do not honor him.
(d) By re-naming the hall after him.

5. During their swimming competition, what separated Beowulf and Breca?
(a) A ship.
(b) The whales.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A north-easter storm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Grendel's mother take off the wall in the hall?

2. What instruments are playing as the Queen enters the hall?

3. What instrument does the minstrel play while Beowulf and his men are in the hall?

4. What causes Beowulf to halt and call the dragon out to fight him?

5. How many days does it take to build Beowulf's burial mound?

(see the answer key)

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