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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epic: Beowulf.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is jealous of Beowulf?
(a) Wiglaf.
(b) Hrunting.
(c) Hrothgar.
(d) Unferth.

2. What does the word "wergild" mean?
(a) A families land.
(b) A man's value.
(c) The succession of kinship.
(d) The naming of a bard.

3. What causes Beowulf's death?
(a) Dragon bite.
(b) Dragon fire.
(c) He falls from a cliff.
(d) He drowns in the ocean.

4. In "The Wife's Lament," where is the wife forced to live?
(a) In an earth-cave.
(b) In a foreign castle.
(c) In a barn.
(d) In a well.

5. Why, according to Wihtred's law number 4, will foreigners be forced to "depart from the land with their goods and their sins"?
(a) If they "refuse to succumb to fate."
(b) If they fail the rights of passage."
(c) If they do not "rugularize their marriage."
(d) If they "fail to recognize the king's laws."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the hero in "The Finnesburh Fragment"?

2. Who was "Letter to the English" meant to act as moral support for?

3. Whose translation of "The Wanderer" is best known?

4. What is the name of the person that "was a crucial member of a tribe or a society" and existed as "a living memory"?

5. What does Beowulf use to fight Grendel?

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