BEOWULF - Stations Quiz

Station 1: What is the definition of an epic poem?

• An archaic and historically significant  poem

• An impressive and popular poem

• A long narrative poem

• A short unrhyming poem

Station 1: What does the acronym EPIC represent regarding an epic hero?

• It stands for how amazing this poem is going to be

• It stands for characteristics of an archetypical epic hero

• It stands for the larger-than-life character of Beowulf

• It stands for the heroic Anglo-Saxons

Station 2: What does the drastic change of names in England reveal about history?

• The nature of fads in baby names

• The nature of nomadic tribes like the Anglo-Saxons

• The nature of conquering lands and establishing dominance

• The nature of natural language change

Station 3: The Anglo-Saxons were once ____ who believed in ____

• Christians / God and the bible

• Pagans / Many gods, lucky charms, and gems

• Agnostics/ Fate and the unknown

• Germans/ Law and order

Station 3: Once Beowulf was finally written down, it was used to …

• Entertain readers and inform them about history

• Entertain readers and explain the Anglo-Saxons

• Entertain readers and spread Christian values

• Entertain readers and showcase Pagan beliefs

Station 4: The author’s purpose in the “Fierce Female” article is to…

• Persuade the reader that females were more important to Anglo-Saxon society than males

• To inform the reader that females played an important role in Anglo-Saxon society

• To entertain the reader with fictional superhero stories about women

• To explain to the reader how to research Anglo-Saxon women

Station 5: “The man-ruler famous, the long-worthy atheling, sat very woeful,” The underlined words are an example of which Anglo-Saxon poetic device?

• Alliteration

• Caesura

• Kenning

• Old English

Station 5: “sat very woeful, suffered great sorrow, sighed for his liegemen” is an example of which Anglo-Saxon poetic device?

• Alliteration

• Caesura

• Kenning

• Old English

Station 5: “Grendel struggled:—his grudges he cherished”

The bold punctuation marks in the middle are an example of which Anglo-Saxon poetic device?

• Alliteration

• Caesura

• Kenning

• Old English

Station 6: The main idea in the “Dragon Diversity” article is…

• English-centric stories are the root of all literature

• Dragons are real and in stories all over the world

• All cultures have important stories in their civilization timeline

• All cultures have stories, but English ones are the most important