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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What wound does Beowulf inflict on Grendel?
(a) He rips Grendel's arm off.
(b) He cuts off Grendel's leg.
(c) He chops Grendel's head off.
(d) He stabs Grendel through the heart with his sword.

3. After Beowulf's sword fails to kill Grendel's mother, what does he use to try to fight her?
(a) Rocks.
(b) An axe.
(c) His bare hands.
(d) A rope.

4. What does Grendel's mother take off the wall in the hall?
(a) An axe.
(b) A sword.
(c) Grendel's arm.
(d) Tapestries.

5. What does Beowulf tell his warriors to do at the headland as he prepares for battle with the dragon?
(a) Hold back and watch.
(b) Follow him.
(c) Pray for him.
(d) Shoot arrows at the dragon.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men does it take to carry Grendel's head?

2. How many serpents did Beowulf slay in his story of the swimming competition between he and Breca's?

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

4. When does Hrothgar say he previously knew Beowulf?

5. As Beowulf prepares to leave Denmark, what does Hrothgar do "as if his heart would break?"

(see the answer key)

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