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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the coast guard wish to know of the Strangers in Chapter 11?
(a) Where they stored their horses.
(b) Their lineage.
(c) How long they are staying.
(d) How they made their boat.

2. In Chapter 7, Unferth is accused of killing whom?
(a) His father.
(b) His brother.
(c) His wife.
(d) His sons.

3. Grendel says that what is the worst pain in Chapter 10?
(a) Death.
(b) Anger.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Tedium.

4. What does Grendel discover about the second man he snatches in Chapter 12?
(a) He is awake.
(b) It is Hrothgar.
(c) It is Unferth.
(d) He is dead.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What statues stand near Hrothgar's hall?

2. In Chapter 10, what do Finn and Hengest pledge to each other?

3. Where do Hrothgar's men watch for an attack in Chapter 10?

4. What is unique about Ork?

5. What invades Grendel's mere in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Grendel mean by saying that it is just as pointless to kill Wealtheow as to let her live?

2. Discuss the sentiment that bread-thieves die while murderers go free. What is meant by this statement?

3. Compare the bowsman hunting the hart to the priest coming to Grendel in the ring of gods.

4. In Chapter 12, discuss Grendel's interpretation of why his mother does not answer him as he calls for her while fighting the Stranger.

5. Describe the behavior of Grendel's mother. How are her actions altered by Grendel's increase in power?

6. What similarities do you see between the brief account of Finn and Hnaef and Hrothgar and Wealtheow's brother?

7. Discuss Wealtheow's life at Hart and her unspoken feelings about her position as queen.

8. Discuss the people's view of religion after years of Grendel's oppression.

9. Describe the lead Stranger. How does he act? What does he look like?

10. Discuss the statement, "By deeds worth praise a man can, in any kingdom, prosper!" (112). How do these words from the Shaper contradict what the dragon told Grendel?

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