Beowulf Test Review
Jeopardy:
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Literary Elements
Answer 1: “For Beowulf,
the price of this last
victory will be great.”
Literary Elements
Question 1: WHAT IS
FORESHADOWING?
Literary Elements
Answer 2:
“And over and over they swore that
nowhere / On earth or under the
spreading sky / Or between the seas,
neither south nor north, / Was there a
warrior worthier to rule over men.”
Literary Elements
Question 2: WHAT IS
ALLITERATION?
Literary Elements
Answer 3: “And all at once the
greedy she-wolf / Who’d ruled
those waters for half a hundred
/ Years discovered him…”
Literary Elements
Question 3: WHAT IS A
KENNING?
Literary Elements
Answer 4: “…When night had
covered the earth with its net /
And the shapes of darkness
moved black and silent /
Through the world.”
Literary Elements
Question 4: WHAT IS
IMAGERY?
Literary Elements
Answer 5: “They could hack at
Grendel / From every side, trying to
open / A path for his evil soul, but
their points / Could not scratch at
his skin, for that sin-stained demon
/ Had bewitched all men’s weapons,
laid spells / That blunted every
mortal man’s blade.”
Literary Elements
Question 5: WHAT ARE
CHRISTIAN / PAGAN
ELEMENTS?
Characters
Answer 1: King of the
Danes whose throne is
protected by God
Characters
Question 1: WHO IS KING
HROTHGAR?
Characters
Answer 2: Beowulf’s
father
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Question 2: WHO IS
EDGETHO?
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Answer 3: Beowulf’s
uncle and feudal lord
Characters
Question 3: WHO IS
HIGLAC?
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Answer 4: Wiglaf’s father
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Question 4: WHO IS
WEXSTAN?
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Answer 5: The sea beast
who sought revenge for
the death of her son
Characters
Question 5: WHO IS
Grendel’s mother?
Numbers
Answer 1: Brave Geats
that went to Denmark to
defeat Grendel
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Question 1: WHAT IS 14?
Numbers
Answer 2: The number of
years Grendel terrorized
Herot Hall
Numbers
Question 2: WHAT IS 12
WINTERS/YEARS
Numbers
Answer 3: The number of
years Beowulf reigned as
King of the Geats
Numbers
Question 3: WHAT IS 50?
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Answer 4: The number of
battles that Beowulf fought
before his death. (Mentioned
in the poem)
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Question 4: WHAT IS 3?
Numbers
Answer 5: The number of
Geats that rode their
horses around Beowulf’s
burial tower.
Numbers
Question 5: WHAT IS 12?
Who Said It?
Answer 1: “Let me live in
greatness and courage, or
here in this hall welcome
my death!”
Who Said It?
Question 1: WHO IS
BEOWULF?
Who Said It?
Answer 2: “Beowulf,
you’ve come to us in
friendship, and because of
the reception your father
found at our court.”
Who Said It?
Question 2: WHO IS KING
HROTHGAR?
Who Said It?
Answer 3: “I’ve heard that
my people, peasants working
in the fields, have seen a
pair of such fiends wandering
in the marshes…”
Who Said It?
Question 3: WHO IS King
Hrothgar?
Who Said It?
Answer 4: “Our only help, again,
lies in you. Grendel’s mother is
hidden in her terrible home, in a
place you’ve not seen. Seek it, if
you dare! Save us, once more, and
again twisted gold, heaped-up
ancient treasure, will reward you for
the battle you win!”
Who Said It?
Question 4: WHO IS KING
HROTHGAR?
Who Said It?
Answer 5: “All of us
swore to repay him, when
the time came, kindness
for kindness—with our
lives, if he needed them.”
Who Said It?
Question 5: WHO IS
WIGLAF?
Vocabulary
Answer 1: To irritate or
annoy
Vocabulary
Question 1: What is
Vexed?
Vocabulary
Answer 2: Liquor made
from fermented honey and
water
Vocabulary
Question 2: WHAT IS
MEAD
Vocabulary
Answer 3: COMFORT OR
RELIEF
Vocabulary
Question 3: WHAT IS
SOLACE?
Vocabulary
Answer 4: TO RIGHT A
WRONG
Vocabulary
Question 4: WHAT IS
REDRESS?
Vocabulary
Answer 5: CHARMING
Vocabulary
Question 5: WHAT IS
WINSOME?
Final Jeopardy Answer:
THE ONE THING THAT CAN
DESTROY HEROT HALL
Final Jeopardy
Question:
WHAT IS FIRE?