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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does the Shaper sing of that upsets Grendel?
(a) Grendel's mother.
(b) Grendel.
(c) God.
(d) Wealtheow.
2. What does Grendel want to know that the dragon won't answer?
(a) When.
(b) Why.
(c) How.
(d) Where.
3. What animal is the speaker shooing away in Chapter 1?
(a) Bear.
(b) Bull.
(c) Bird.
(d) Ram.
4. What does Grendel do with the corpse in Chapter 4?
(a) Eats it.
(b) Gives it to his mother.
(c) Buries it.
(d) Takes it to the hall.
5. What did Hrothgar build on his hill out of stone?
(a) A wall.
(b) A hall.
(c) Roads.
(d) A throne.
Short Answer Questions
1. Grendel compares talking to what in Chapter 2?
2. How many days after their first meeting does Unferth seek out Grendel's cave?
3. How many tribes does Hrothgar make treaties with?
4. Which race does the harper say creatures like Grendel come from?
5. What happens when Grendel strikes the ground in Chapter 4?
Short Essay Questions
1. What entices Grendel to Hrothgar's hall? Why is a part of him swept up in the merriment?
2. What does Grendel hope his mother will tell him someday? Why doesn't she?
3. Discuss Grendel's mother and how she differs from her son.
4. Discuss Grendel's personal transformation during and as a result of his first raid.
5. How does Grendel feel about the brainless ram?
6. Discuss the quote on page 7 where Grendel gives himself alternate names (shadow-shooter, earth-rim-roamer, walker of the world's weird wall). What does this signify?
7. Describe the location of Grendel’s home.
8. Describe the firesnakes. What sort of creature do you think they are?
9. What do snakes symbolize in the novel?
10. How is the dragon’s appearance described?
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