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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the Shaper in Chapter 10?
(a) He dies.
(b) He is promoted.
(c) He leaves.
(d) He retires.

2. The giant is described as having the strength of how many men, according to the narrative in Chapter 10?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Ten.
(d) Five.

3. What course of action does Red Horse suggest to Hrothulf in Chapter 8?
(a) Running Away.
(b) Marrying Hrothgar's daughter.
(c) Revolution.
(d) Murder.

4. Who does the Shaper look for but who never visits in Chapter 10?
(a) A child.
(b) Freawaru.
(c) Wealtheow.
(d) A certain woman.

5. What is the queen's name?
(a) Wealtheow.
(b) Freawaru.
(c) Beatrice.
(d) Freya.

6. What is Grendel's law?
(a) There is no limit to desire but desire's needs.
(b) Kill them all.
(c) Leave only the queen.
(d) Blood equals power.

7. What do the village children make in the snow in Chapter 9?
(a) Forts.
(b) Fires.
(c) Snowmen.
(d) Snow angels.

8. What invades Grendel's mere in Chapter 10?
(a) A hart.
(b) A bear.
(c) A goat.
(d) A bull.

9. Who helps the Stranger fight Grendel in Chapter 12?
(a) Hrothgar.
(b) Hrothulf.
(c) Unferth.
(d) No one.

10. In Chapter 9, who joins Ork and the other three priests?
(a) Hrothgar.
(b) Another younger priest.
(c) Wealtheow.
(d) Unferth.

11. Why have the Strangers come in Chapter 11?
(a) To capture Wealtheow.
(b) To kill Hrothgar.
(c) To help Hrothgar with Grendel.
(d) To foster Hrothulf.

12. In what year of Grendel's wars does Hrothgar's power begin to fail?
(a) The fifth.
(b) The third.
(c) The second.
(d) The tenth.

13. What instrument does the assistant play at the Shaper’s funeral?
(a) The old Shaper's harp.
(b) A drum.
(c) His sister's violin.
(d) His uncle's guitar.

14. What does Grendel slip on that gives the Stranger the upper hand in Chapter 12?
(a) Water.
(b) Blood.
(c) A bench.
(d) Sleeping men.

15. Who is the young king?
(a) Hygmod.
(b) Heremod.
(c) Beowulf.
(d) Hrothulf.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do the priests ask the gods to deliver them from in Chapter 9?

2. In Chapter 8, who does Hrothgar intend to give to Ingeld to support a truce?

3. What event excites Grendel in the beginning of Chapter 11?

4. Red Horse says all what are monstrously evil?

5. Grendel says that everything that happened was what in Chapter 12?

(see the answer keys)

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