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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Grendel enter the hall?
(a) By quietly opening the door.
(b) Through the roof.
(c) By ripping the door off.
(d) By sneaking quietly through the window.

2. What does Beowulf do when the celebration after Grendel's defeat ends?
(a) Leaves immediately for the lair of Grendel's mother.
(b) Sleeps.
(c) Seeks an audience with the queen.
(d) Makes sure his men are fed.

3. Who does Unferth claim Beowulf lost a swimming match to?
(a) Wulfgar.
(b) Hrothgar.
(c) Unferth.
(d) Breca.

4. How many serpents did Beowulf slay in his story of the swimming competition between he and Breca's?
(a) 15.
(b) 6.
(c) 10.
(d) 2.

5. Who tells Beowulf that Grendel can only be defeated by bare hands?
(a) Hrothgar.
(b) Unferth.
(c) Grendel's mother.
(d) Wealhtheow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do the Danes honor the one man in Beowulf's party who was killed by Grendel?

2. Who is Wulfgar?

3. How many men did Beowulf bring with him to Denmark?

4. What attacked Beowulf while he was in the ocean with Breca?

5. During their swimming competition, what separated Beowulf and Breca?

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