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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was "Letter to the English" meant to act as moral support for?
(a) Earl Thorkel.
(b) Prince Kent.
(c) Duke Sententon.
(d) King Alfred.

2. Who helped Beowulf fight the dragon?
(a) Unferth.
(b) Hrethric.
(c) Hrothgar.
(d) Wiglaf.

3. Where is Hrothgar's kingdom?
(a) East Saxon.
(b) Daneland.
(c) Northumbria.
(d) Hwicca.

4. Whose translation of "The Wanderer" is best known?
(a) Socrates'.
(b) J.R.R. Tolkien's.
(c) Shakespeare's.
(d) Ezra Pound's.

5. Wihtred was king over what people?
(a) South Dane.
(b) Geatland.
(c) Daneland.
(d) Kent.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who wrote "Letter to the English"?

4. What is Grendel unable to approach in Heorot?

5. What is the author of "The Wanderer" searching for in his elegy?

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