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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Beowulf wish he could fight the dragon?
(a) With Hrunting.
(b) With the giant's sword.
(c) He doesn't wish to fight at all.
(d) With his bare hands as he fought Grendel.

2. What decorates the goblets the Queen uses to serve Beowulf and his men?
(a) Copper.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Jewels.
(d) Carvings of dragons.

3. Who promises to come with "a thousand spears and a thousand shields" if the other should be attacked?
(a) Beowulf makes this promise to Hrothgar.
(b) Beowulf makes this promise to Wiglaf.
(c) Wiglaf makes this promise to Beowulf.
(d) Hrothgar makes this promise to Beowulf.

4. Where does Beowulf say his funeral fire is to be?
(a) On the Whale's Headland.
(b) At Heorot.
(c) At the Grendel lake.
(d) In his homeland.

5. Where does the dragon that Beowulf defeats live?
(a) In a burial mound.
(b) At the bottom of a lake.
(c) In a cave.
(d) In the forest.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Grendel enter the hall?

2. What kind of man is Unferth described as being?

3. What does Beowulf say his spears are made of?

4. How tall is Grendel?

5. Who tells Beowulf that Grendel can only be defeated by bare hands?

(see the answer key)

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