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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Hrunting?
(a) Grendel's mother's hall.
(b) Hrothgar's hall.
(c) Beowulf's sword.
(d) A shield.

2. For how many years had Grendel plagued Hrothgar?
(a) 9 years.
(b) 50 years.
(c) 12 years.
(d) 3 years.

3. What instruments are playing as the Queen enters the hall?
(a) Flutes.
(b) Trumpets.
(c) Harps.
(d) Drums.

4. As Beowulf prepares to leave Denmark, what does Hrothgar do "as if his heart would break?"
(a) Sings.
(b) Weeps.
(c) Helps Beowulf load his possessions.
(d) Watches the ships sail away.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who leads Beowulf to the Grendel lake?

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

3. What does Grendel want to do when he is first confronted by Beowulf?

4. What does Grendel hate the sound of?

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

(see the answer key)

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