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    1. This document provides a summative test on Beowulf covering characters, literary terms, analysis of passages, reading comprehension questions, and background questions. 2. The reading comprehension questions cover details about Grendel raiding Herot hall for 12 years, Grendel being a descendant of Cain, Beowulf being a Geat who comes to help the Danes when they have endured Grendel's attacks for 12 years, and other key plot points. 3. The background questions cover the groups that invaded Britain, including the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, and the native Britons being converted to Christianity by 550 CE.

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    1. This document provides a summative test on Beowulf covering characters, literary terms, analysis of passages, reading comprehension questions, and background questions. 2. The reading comprehension questions cover details about Grendel raiding Herot hall for 12 years, Grendel being a descendant of Cain, Beowulf being a Geat who comes to help the Danes when they have endured Grendel's attacks for 12 years, and other key plot points. 3. The background questions cover the groups that invaded Britain, including the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, and the native Britons being converted to Christianity by 550 CE.

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    1. This document provides a summative test on Beowulf covering characters, literary terms, analysis of passages, reading comprehension questions, and background questions. 2. The reading comprehension questions cover details about Grendel raiding Herot hall for 12 years, Grendel being a descendant of Cain, Beowulf being a Geat who comes to help the Danes when they have endured Grendel's attacks for 12 years, and other key plot points. 3. The background questions cover the groups that invaded Britain, including the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, and the native Britons being converted to Christianity by 550 CE.

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    Beowulf: Summative Test

    I. Characters/Literary Terms (1 point each): Match the word/name on the left with the
    definition/description on the right.

    ____1. Kenning a The ruler of the Danes


    ___ 2. Caesura b. Beowulf’s homeland
    ____3. Alliteration c. a break or pause in a line of poetry

    ___ 4. Hrothgar
    d. a descriptive device common in Anglo-Saxon
    poetry
    ____5. Danish watchman e. Brings Beowulf to King Hrothgar when he first
    arrives in Denmark

    f. The repetition of consonants at the beginning of


    words
    ___6. Geatland

    II. Literary Analysis (1 point each): Read the passage and choose the correct answer.

    1 With surfeit of slaughter sallying homeward


    2 In dusk of the dawning, as the day was just breaking,
    3 Was Grendel’s prowess revealed to the warriors:
    4 Then, his meal-taking finished, a moan was uplifted,
    5 Morning-cry mighty. The man-ruler famous
    6 The long-worthy atheling, sat very woeful,
    7 Suffered great sorrow, sighed for his liegemen,

    7. The literary device evident in line 1 is

    a. simile

    b. kenning

    c. alliteration

    d. understatement

    8. In line 5 the man-ruler famous refers to

    a. Hrothgar

    b. Breca

    c. Higlac
    d. Wulfgar

    9. In line 5 the man-ruler is an example of

    a. kenning

    b. alliteration

    c. caesura

    d. litotes

    10. In line 3 the word prowess most closely means

    a. skulking

    b. murder

    c. Strength

    d. bravery

    11. The Danes in the above passage can best be described as

    a. remorseful

    b. mournful

    c. defiant

    d. revengeful

    III. Reading comprehension (1 point each): Choose the correct answer for each of the
    following.

    12. Grendel raids Hrothgar’s hall for

    a. three years

    b. six years

    c. twelve years

    d. eighteen years
    13. Hrothgar’s great hall is called

    a. Freaware

    b. Weders

    c. Herot

    d. Wayland

    14. Grendel is

    a. a fire-breathing dragon

    b. a descendent of Cain

    c. an ogre

    d. an outlawed Dane

    15. Beowulf is

    a. a Viking

    b. a Dane

    c. a Geat

    d. a Saxon

    16. How does Hrothgar know of Beowulf?

    (A) Beowulf once proposed to his daughter


    (B) Hrothgar was friends with Beowulf's father
    (C) Beowulf had gained a widespread reputation after slaying a dragon
    (D) He read about him on the internet

    17. How long does Beowulf reign as King of the Geats?

    (A) 30 years
    (B) 40 years
    (C) 50 years
    (D) 60 years

    18. Who helps Beowulf against the dragon?

    (A) Wulfgar
    (B) Unferth
    (C) Hrothgar
    (D) Wiglaf

    19. What is Hrunting?

    (A) A mead-hall
    (B) A sword
    (C) A lake
    (D) A helmet
    20. Who is Beowulf's father?

    (A) Edgetho
    (B) Hrothgar
    (C) Wulfgar
    (D) Welthow
    21. Where do Grendel and his mother live?

    (A) In a palace
    (B) In a mead-hall
    (C) In a barrow
    (D) In a lake
    22. What is a scop?

    (A) A mead-hall
    (B) A poet
    (C) A god
    (D) A ship
    IV. Reading comprehension (1 point each): For the following statements, mark “A” for
    true and “B” for false.

    23. Grendel is an evil monster who devours the Danes.


    24. Hrothgar personally tries to fight Grendel.
    25. The Danes endure Grendel’s torture for five years before they ask for help.
    26. Beowulf goes to Denmark because he hopes to settle the feud between the Geats
    and the Danes.
    27. When he lands in Denmark, Beowulf is greeted cautiously, then warmly
    welcomed.
    28. As he did with Grendel, Beowulf insists on meeting the monster’s mother
    unarmed.
    29. Beowulf curses the dragon’s treasure because it costs him his life.

    V. Anglo-Saxon background (1 point each). Choose the correct answer for each of the
    following.

    30. Which of the following groups did NOT invade Britain?


    a. Angles
    b. Saxons
    c. Jutes
    d. Swedes

    31. By the year 550 ce. the native Britain’s had been converted to what religion?
    a. Islam
    b. Christianity
    c. Buddhism
    d. Atheism

    VI. Answer the following questions in complete sentences.

    32. In what ways is Beowulf an epic hero? (15 points)

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