Battle with Grendel
Battle with Grendel's Mother
Heroes, Monsters, and Villains
Terms/Figurative Language
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What causes Grendel to enter Herot in the beginning
What is he was irritated with the music and loud men
100
Where the Battle with Grendel's Mother took place
What is underwater
100
Why is Grendel is banished
What is he is descendant of Cain
100
A long narrative peom
What is an epic
100

Based on page 98, why did Beowulf choose Wiglaf to help him?

What is he was a small person, slim and agile, which was partly why Beowulf had chosen him for the job?

200
How Beowulf kills Grendel
What is he rips his arm off with his bare hands
200
Beowulf uses this to kill Grendel's Mother
What is the sword from the cave wall
200

Name two heroes in Beowulf?

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What is Beowulf, Sigmeud, Wiglaf?

200
People who wrote down stories
What is scribes
200

On page 89, what words, phrases or sentences describe Beowulf? 

What is Beowulf was now an old man.  His beard was white. His back was bent.  He was nearly blind.  He had done nothing much for forty years but tend to his bees.  The bees had taught him, he said, to rule wisely?

300
Grendel casts a spell on this
What is the men's weapons
300
Beowulf takes this with them from Grendel's Mother's Lair
What is Grendel's head
300

Distinguish the difference between a monster and a villain.

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What is a monster is a creature with animalistic features that is evil and causes harm opposed to a villain is a character who is typically a human, wicked, and intentionally tries or has motives to do evil?

300

Describe characteristics of a hero in two terms. 

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Courageous, humble, kind, selfless, etc

300

How does the conclusion of Beowulf: A New Telling develop the theme that a hero should be empathetic and humble?

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400
Why did Beowulf keep Grendel's arm after killing him
What is to keep is as a trophy
400
What was Grendel's Mothers intentions
What is to seek revenge for her son's death
400

How long Grendel was terrorizing Herot before Beowulf came to the rescue

What is 12 years (12 winters)

400

Interpret this quote from pp. 56-57: “Unferth gnawed at his knuckles like an animal trying to rid itself of a wounded and unwanted limb.”

What is Unferth bit his knuckles, because he was scared?

400

Beowulf is an avenger.  Exactly what has Beowulf made right through his act of vengeance?

What is Beowulf is an avenger for Hrothgar and his family, but he also makes right the evil that Grendel’s mother committed with Cain, and even the wrong Cain committed against his family and God. 

500
What characteristic does Beowulf show during the Battle with Grendel
What is bravery
500
Why does Grendel's mother only kill one soldier in the beginning
What is to lure Beowulf into her lair
500

Is Unferth a villain or a monster? Explain.

What is Unferth is a villain, because he has evil actions and motives that contrast anything good. He is jealous of Beowulf and loves Grendel? 

500

Define imperishable (pp. 55)

He belonged out there in the night, the fatal darkness, the imperishable black” (p.55).

What is a undying, unending?

500

How has Beowulf changed as a hero at the end of his life?  Is he more or less of a hero than when he was younger?  What are your reasons? (RL.6.3)

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