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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epic: Beowulf.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to "The Wife's Lament," what "goes side by side with those who suffer longing for a loved one"?
(a) Anger.
(b) Grief.
(c) Saddness.
(d) Solitude.

2. What does the author in the introduction to the Heroic Poems section state is the "finest expression of the code" (the Germanic Heroic code)?
(a) "Deor."
(b) "Beowulf."
(c) "The Battle of Maldon."
(d) "The Finnesburh Fragment."

3. What does Hrothgar promise Beowulf for killing Grendel?
(a) A wife.
(b) Treasure.
(c) Kinghood.
(d) Knighthood.

4. What is the name of the man that Beowulf challenges to a swimming race?
(a) Wiglaf.
(b) Hrunting.
(c) Unferth.
(d) Brecca.

5. How many shillings will it cost someone if they were to "breach the Church's protection"?
(a) 25 shilings.
(b) 15 shillings.
(c) 75 shillings.
(d) 50 shillings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a compressed narrative poem?

2. According to the author of the introduction to The Elegies, what do many Anglo-Saxon poems fail to have a "sufficient frame" of?

3. In "The Battle of Maldon," who "over-confidently allowed the Danes to cross the causeway"?

4. What is the author of "The Wanderer" searching for in his elegy?

5. Who is jealous of Beowulf?

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