Grade 12 Anjal - Term 1 FX - Review Reading Comprehension

Beowulf

100

1. Who is the king of the Danes at the beginning of the poem? (Beowulf)

b) Hrothgar

200

2. What is the name of the mead-hall that Hrothgar builds? (Beowulf)

a) Heorot   c) Herot

300

3. What monstrous creature terrorizes the Danes for twelve years? (Beowulf)

b) Grendel

400

4. Where does Beowulf travel from to help Hrothgar? (Beowulf)

c) Geatland

500

5. Who is Beowulf's king? (Beowulf)

b) Hygelac

Beowulf 2

100

6. How does Beowulf defeat Grendel? (Beowulf)

b) By ripping off his arm

200

7. Where does Grendel live? (Beowulf)

c) In a misty moors and fen

300

8. Who attacks Heorot after Grendel is killed? (Beowulf)

c) Grendel's Mother

400

9. Where does the battle with Grendel's Mother take place? (Beowulf)

b) In a cave at the bottom of a lake

500

10. What weapon does Beowulf use to kill Grendel's Mother? (Beowulf)

c) A giant's magical sword

Beowulf 3

100

11. What does Beowulf bring back from the lair of Grendel's Mother as proof of his victory? (Beowulf)

a) Grendel's head   b) The magical sword's hilt

200

12. Who becomes king of the Geats after Hygelac dies? (Beowulf)

c) Beowulf

300

13. What provokes the dragon to attack the Geats? (Beowulf)

b) A slave steals a golden cup from its treasure hoard.

400

14. How many men accompany Beowulf to fight the dragon? (Beowulf)

a) Thirteen

500

15. Who is the only warrior who stays to help Beowulf fight the dragon? (Beowulf)

c) Wiglaf

Hamlet

100

1. What is the primary setting of the play? (Hamlet)

c) Denmark

200

2. Who is the ghost that the guards see at the beginning of the play? (Hamlet)

b) The late King Hamlet

300

3. What does the ghost reveal to Hamlet?

c) That he was murdered by Claudius, who poured poison in his ear

400

4. How are King Claudius and Queen Gertrude related to Hamlet?

a) Claudius is his uncle, and Gertrude is his mother.

500

5. Who is Ophelia?  (Hamlet)

c) Polonius's daughter and Hamlet's love interest

Hamlet 2

100

6. What is Polonius's role in the court?  (Hamlet)

b) The chief counselor

200

7. Why does Hamlet pretend to be mad?

b) To distract from his investigation of his father's death and his plans for revenge

300

8. What is the name of the play-within-a-play that Hamlet arranges?

a) The Murder of Gonzago   b) The Mousetrap

400

9. What is Hamlet's famous soliloquy that begins with "To be, or not to be" about?

c) The morality and suffering of life and the fear of the unknown after death

500

10. Who says, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be"? (Hamlet)

c) Polonius