Beowulf Background Stations Quiz

Station One: 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 One: 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 Two: 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 Three: 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 Three: 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 Four: 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 Five: "The man-ruler famous, the long-worthy atheling, sat very woful," is mostly an example of which Anglo-Saxon poetic device?

• Alliteration

• Caesura

• Kenning

• Old English

Station Five: "sat very woful, suffered great sorrow, sighted for his liegemen" is mostly an example of which ANglo-Saxon poetic device?

• Alliteration

• Caesura

• Kenning

• Old English

Station Five: "Grendel struggled—his ghastly hands he cherished" is mostly an example of which Anglo-Saxon poetic device?

• Alliteration

• Caesura

• Kenning

• Old English

Station Six: The main idea in the "Dragon Diversity" article is...

• Dragon-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