Beowulf Lesson 7: Quiz

What will you always find in a gnome?

• wisdom and advice

• an angry speech

• a pot of gold

• a complaint

What occurs while the Spear-Danes are sleeping off the feast celebrating Beowulf's victory?

• Grendel attacks again

• Grendel's mother attacks

• everyone gets food poisoning

• the Geats attack Heorot

What does the "hell-dam" take from the hall?

• Grendel's hand

• Kool-Aid

• Hrothgar's heirloom sword

• the leftovers from the feast

Whom does Grendel's mother kill?

• Hrothgar's wife

• Hrothgar's highest advisor

• Unferth

• Hrothgar

What strange thing happens to the mere's water at night?

• it bubbles

• it burns

• it evaporates

• it turns brackish

What does Beowulf plan to do at the mere?

• brush his hair

• retrieve Hrothgar's sword

• fight Grendel's mother underwater

• work on his backstroke

What happens when Beowulf dives into the lake?

• the mist clears

• a hand holding a sword rises out of the water

• the water stops burning

• Grendel's mother captures him

What does Beowulf do with the sword he finds?

• He trades it for Grendel's head

• He gives it to his most trusted companion

• He cuts the head off of Grendel's body

• He uses it to kill a deer

What happens to that sword?

• One of Hrothgar's thanes catches it when Beowulf throws it out of the water

• Grendel's mother eats it

• The blade turns into icicles that melt

• Beowulf accidentally drops it in the bottom of the lake

After Beowulf returns to Heorot, Hrothgar makes a speech and compares Beowulf to another warrior who made bad choices after he rose to glory. What is this warrior's name?

• Henry

• Hrothgar

• Herman

• Heremond