Characters
Descriptive Language
Vocabulary
Important Places
Quotes
100
The King of the danes is ________________________
Hrothgar
100
Which character was described scratching "his boil with a grimy fingernail"?
Unferth
100
What vocabulary word is where Grendel and his mother live?
Fen
100
Beowulf is from the land of the
Geats
100
Who said, "You killed him! He was beautiful, and you killed him!"?
Unferth
200
Who killed Unferth?
She/ Grendel's Mother
200
Who "made a noise in its throat like the crunching of bones or the sudden fracture of ice underfoot"?
Grendel
200
Who are the native inhabitants of Denmark?
Danes
200
The rotten apple Beowulf eats comes from where?
The Witches Woods
200
Explain "The truly good man finds good where he can."
Everyone has some good in them. Nothing and no one person is all bad.
300
Who gave Beowulf a golden ring?
Wealhtheow
300
Who lived in the place that was described as having "dry bones everywhere amongst the marsh grasses and... pools (that) stank of centuries of decay"?
Grendel's Mother
300
What word means "to come forth into view or notice"?
emerging
300
Where does Beowulf put Unferth's head?
He burries it.
300
Who wants the "vile, treacherous coward Unferth" killed?
Hrothgar
400
Who was the baby that came on the ship to the Danes and became king?
Scyld Sceffing
400
What was described as having "golden roofs that can be seen a day's march away, brighter than the sun itself"?
Hall Heorot
400
What does Antagonist mean?
Good guy/ hero
400
What place helps to defeat Grendel's Mother?
The cave
400
Who said "Beowulf is Beowulf"?
Wiglaf
500
Who finally takes over for Beowulf and becomes King of the Geats?
Wiglaf
500
Whose "scaly body swelled and swelled as it got angrier"?
Firedrake
500
What word means "one who suffers for their beliefs"?
Martyr
500
Where did Scyld Sceffing return to as he was dying?
The Ocean
500
What three words does Hardred say that convinces Beowulf he should be king?
Mercy, Pity, Peace
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