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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the dragon's final advice to Grendel in Chapter 5?
(a) To leave the village.
(b) To kill all men.
(c) To seek gold and sit on it.
(d) To capture the queen.

2. What Biblical stories does the harper sing of?
(a) Jonah and the Whale.
(b) Moses.
(c) Creation and Cain and Abel.
(d) The Flood.

3. The dragon's great ambition is to do what?
(a) Burn down Hart.
(b) Kill Hrothgar.
(c) Kill Grendel.
(d) Count all his treasure.

4. What does Grendel find in the woods while circling the hall in Chapter 4?
(a) A dead man.
(b) A store of weapons.
(c) A pile of treasure.
(d) Garbage.

5. What does the Shaper sing of that upsets Grendel?
(a) Grendel's mother.
(b) Wealtheow.
(c) Grendel.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time of day does Grendel wander outside?

2. What changes in the spring between the clans of men?

3. What does Hrothgar throw at Grendel in Chapter 3?

4. What does Grendel call the words of the blind man in Chapter 3?

5. How does Grendel avoid the bull in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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