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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. In Chapter 10, why does Hengest kill Finn?
(a) Power and revenge.
(b) Finn killed Henest's father.
(c) Self-defense.
(d) Boredom.

2. Where do Hrothgar's men watch for an attack in Chapter 10?
(a) They no longer watch.
(b) Toward the sea.
(c) Toward the mountain.
(d) Toward the forest.

3. Grendel thinks that the Stranger is what in Chapter 11?
(a) Dead.
(b) Crazy.
(c) Weak.
(d) Lucky.

4. Who are the two speakers of poetry in Chapter 8?
(a) Hrothgar and Wealtheow.
(b) Hrothulf and Hrothgar.
(c) Hrothulf and Wealtheow.
(d) Hrothgar and Grendel.

5. What does the coast guard wish to know of the Strangers in Chapter 11?
(a) Their lineage.
(b) Where they stored their horses.
(c) How they made their boat.
(d) How long they are staying.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 10, what do Finn and Hengest pledge to each other?

2. How do the Strangers arrive in Chapter 11?

3. The young priest tells the people that the gods made what for their joy?

4. What does Grendel imagine the Stranger who fights him to be for a split second in Chapter 12?

5. Where are the Strangers from that arrive in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the statement, "By deeds worth praise a man can, in any kingdom, prosper!" (112). How do these words from the Shaper contradict what the dragon told Grendel?

2. What is the relationship between Hrothgar and Wealtheow? Are they a happy couple?

3. Compare the bowsman hunting the hart to the priest coming to Grendel in the ring of gods.

4. Discuss the priests' reaction to Ork's tale of speaking with the Great Destroyer.

5. What do Wealtheow's words to the sleeping Hrothulf mean?

6. What similarities do you see between the brief account of Finn and Hnaef and Hrothgar and Wealtheow's brother?

7. Does the Finn tale function only to foreshadow what will befall Hrothgar? Who else could suffer a similar fate?

8. Discuss the sentiment that bread-thieves die while murderers go free. What is meant by this statement?

9. In Chapter 12, who are Grendel's final words directed toward? What foreshadowing do his words provide?

10. In Chapter 12, discuss Grendel's interpretation of why his mother does not answer him as he calls for her while fighting the Stranger.

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