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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who do the Danes honor the one man in Beowulf's party who was killed by Grendel?
(a) They do not honor him.
(b) With a song by the minstrel.
(c) With a poem in his honor.
(d) By re-naming the hall after him.

3. Who did Hrothgar give golden rings and bracelets to?
(a) Grendel.
(b) His followers.
(c) Grendel's mother.
(d) His wife.

4. Who is Wulfgar?
(a) Grendel's son.
(b) The King's herald.
(c) Hrothgar's son.
(d) Beowulf's kinsman.

5. What towered "high to reach heaven" and "strong to withstand the buffet of war?"
(a) The Catholic Church.
(b) Grendel.
(c) Beowulf.
(d) Heorot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beowulf do when the celebration after Grendel's defeat ends?

2. What does Hrothgar vow to treat Beowulf like after Grendel's defeat?

3. What color is the banner Hrothgar gives Beowulf?

4. What instrument does the minstrel play while Beowulf and his men are in the hall?

5. Who stays awake waiting for Grendel while the other warriors sleep in the hall?

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