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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Grendel's mother use to try to kill Beowulf?
(a) A knife.
(b) Her hands.
(c) An axe.
(d) Beowulf's sword.

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

3. Who forged the tremendous sword that is in Grendel's mother's lair?
(a) Magicians.
(b) Grendel.
(c) Giants of olden time.
(d) Grendel's mother.

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

5. Who does Grendel's mother kill during the night?
(a) Grendel.
(b) Aeschere.
(c) The Queen.
(d) Unferth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Grendel lake lined with?

2. What does the Queen give Beowulf and his men to drink?

3. How long does Unferth say Beowulf wallowed at sea?

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

5. What are Hrothgar and his warriors doing when Grendel first enters Heorot?

(see the answer key)

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