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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Before battling Grendel's mother, what does Beowulf ask the King to do if he should die?
(a) Promise to tell stories of his heroism.
(b) Send his men back to their homeland.
(c) Look after his men.
(d) Build him a monument.

3. Where does the dragon that Beowulf defeats live?
(a) In a cave.
(b) At the bottom of a lake.
(c) In the forest.
(d) In a burial mound.

4. Who promises to come with "a thousand spears and a thousand shields" if the other should be attacked?
(a) Beowulf makes this promise to Hrothgar.
(b) Hrothgar makes this promise to Beowulf.
(c) Wiglaf makes this promise to Beowulf.
(d) Beowulf makes this promise to Wiglaf.

5. What do most of Beowulf's warriors do when they see he is losing the battle with the dragon?
(a) Run away.
(b) Cry piteously.
(c) Rush in to help.
(d) Fall to their knees and pray.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Hrothgar's queen?

2. After Beowulf's sword fails to kill Grendel's mother, what does he use to try to fight her?

3. At the beginning of Chapter 2, who is brooding with grief and greedy for revenge?

4. Who is Wiglaf?

5. How does Hrothgar kill the first monster at the Grendel lake?

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