Grendel, Chapter 6

The dragon places a "charm" on Grendel. What is the charm?

• The ability to hold his breath for an excessive period of time.

• Men's weapons cannot harm him.

• He can foretell the future.

• He can rap every Kanye West song.

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Grendel said, "My heart became darker because of that." What is "that"?

• The way the thanes treat him.

• The fact that men's weapons can no longer harm him.

• His mother's inability to talk.

• The discussion he had with the dragon.

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Grendel has an understandable dislike for the Shaper. As he listens to the Shaper's song, he states, "I no longer remember exactly what he sang. I know only that it had a strange effect on me..." What is the "strange effect"?

• It enraged him.

• It filled him with distess.

• It filled him with loneliness.

• It made him hungry for roasted Thane brain.

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Grendel said, "I was as solitary as one live tree in a vast landscape of coal." This is an example of

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• kenning

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Grendel said, "I was Grendel,..." Fill in the missing information.

• "ruiner of good mead."

• "the cutest beast you'll ever meet."

• "Ruiner of mead halls, Wrecker of Kings."

• "Ruiner of thanes' lives, and Destroyer of Hrothgar."

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When battling Unferth, what does Grendel use as a weapon?

• A guard's head

• the mead table

• apples

• his talons

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Why does Grendel spare Unferth's life?

• to emphasize the ridiculous nature of what the poet calls "heroism"

• Grendel is not hungry.

• Unferth begs for his life to be spared.

• Grendel's mother kills Unferth instead.

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Who "stood out among his fellow thanes like a horse in a herd of cows"?

• Hrothgar

• Beowulf

• Unferth

• Scyle

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Grendel did something because, as he stated, "I wouldn't be misunderstood." What does he do?

• Killed two guards at Herot.

• Returned Unferth's body to Herot.

• Killed Beowulf.

• Went to Myrtle Beach over fall break

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Grendel is doomed to live an evil existence due to...

• His bad breath

• His ancestor

• His mother

• Hrothgar

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