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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time of year is it when Grendel begins his war with Hrothgar?
(a) Spring.
(b) Fall.
(c) Winter.
(d) Summer.

2. What is Grendel caught in when the bull charges him in Chapter 2?
(a) A trap.
(b) An old tree.
(c) A stone wall.
(d) A rabbit hole.

3. What does Grendel do with the corpse in Chapter 4?
(a) Eats it.
(b) Gives it to his mother.
(c) Takes it to the hall.
(d) Buries it.

4. Grendel claims he is the disfigured son of what in Chapter 1?
(a) Men.
(b) Demons.
(c) The Devil.
(d) Lunatics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator’s name?

2. Why is Unferth so weak?

3. Why does the bull attack Grendel?

4. What did Hrothgar build on his hill out of stone?

5. What does Grendel compare the fire to in Chapter 1?

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