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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the king and queen wait patiently to happen in Chapter 10?
(a) The truce to be upheld.
(b) Grendel to die.
(c) Beowulf to arrive.
(d) The Shaper to die.

2. What are the workers replacing after Grendel’s attack in Hrothgar’s Hall in Chapter 1?
(a) The roof.
(b) The door.
(c) The courtyard.
(d) The moat.

3. What does Grendel ultimately do to the outlawed men?
(a) Brings them to his mother.
(b) Eats them.
(c) Hangs them in trees.
(d) Drowns them in the lake.

4. What ominous feeling does Grendel have?
(a) That something is coming.
(b) That he will die soon.
(c) That Unferth will die soon.
(d) That Hrothgar will die soon.

5. Who does Ork tell the other priests he has been speaking to in Chapter 9?
(a) The Great Destroyer.
(b) God.
(c) Hrothgar.
(d) Grendel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Grendel see for the first time the night he hangs in the tree in Chapter 2?

2. Why is Unferth so weak?

3. Where does the sunken door lead to?

4. Grendel compares the ram to what?

5. How does Grendel discover that he cannot be harmed in Chapter 6?

(see the answer key)

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