Beowulf

How many winters did Grendel terrorize Herot?

• 150 years

• 6 years

• 30 years

• 12 winters/years

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What is the name of the place Beowulf came from?

• The promise land

• Land of the Geats

• Land of the monarchs

• The Herotland

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How did Beowulf and his men get to Denmark?

• By horse and buggy

• By foot

• They sailed there

• By pterodactyls

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

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Who was the King of the Danes?

• Grendel

• Beowulf

• Wiglaf

• Hrothgar

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What was the name of the Mead Hall?

• Herot

• Bungalow

• Mead Hall

• House of the Danes

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Who wrote Beowulf?

• Anonymous

• Shakespeare

• Chaucer

• Hemingway

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Long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds

• epic

• elegy

• allegory

• kenning

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

repetition of consonant sound at the beginning of each word

• allusion
• allegory
• assonance
• alliteration

rid of impurities

• purge
• craven
• exile
• spawn

known widely and usually unfavorably

• infamous
• admonish
• affliction
• prosper