10. How do you know that Beowulf is an epic poem?
It is a poem about terrible monsters and dragons.
It is a long poem that tells a story about a legendary hero.
It tells about real events and real people of long ago.
It was not written down at first but told by storytellers.
11. Read the following quotation from Beowulf. What is the best paraphrase for the underlined part of the quotation?
Their courage / Was great but all wasted: they could hack at Grendel / From every side, trying to open / A path for his evil soul, but their points / Could not hurt him . . .
opening a door so he could escape
trying to save his soul
stopping him from escaping
attempting to kill him
Vocabulary and Grammar
12. In which situation might someone most need solace?
a victory over a monster
the discovery of a great treasure
the sight of Grendel's head
the death of a loved one
13. Which of these quotations from the poem contains an appositive phrase?
“Then when the darkness had dropped, Grendel . . .”
“And sometimes they sacrificed to the old stone gods,”
“Remember, / Hrothgar, O knowing king . . .”
“How the monster relished his savage war / On the Danes,”
14. Which words are the compound predicate in this excerpt?
A brother / Opens his palms and pours down gold / On his kinsman's grave
(“opens his palms and pours down gold”
“brother, opens his palms”
“pours down gold”
“pours down gold, on his kinsman's grave”
15. Which is the best meaning of the italicized word in the phrase “Are fervent with life”?
frightful
cowardly
cautious
It is a poem about terrible monsters and dragons.
It is a long poem that tells a story about a legendary hero.
It tells about real events and real people of long ago.
It was not written down at first but told by storytellers.
11. Read the following quotation from Beowulf. What is the best paraphrase for the underlined part of the quotation?
Their courage / Was great but all wasted: they could hack at Grendel / From every side, trying to open / A path for his evil soul, but their points / Could not hurt him . . .
opening a door so he could escape
trying to save his soul
stopping him from escaping
attempting to kill him
Vocabulary and Grammar
12. In which situation might someone most need solace?
a victory over a monster
the discovery of a great treasure
the sight of Grendel's head
the death of a loved one
13. Which of these quotations from the poem contains an appositive phrase?
“Then when the darkness had dropped, Grendel . . .”
“And sometimes they sacrificed to the old stone gods,”
“Remember, / Hrothgar, O knowing king . . .”
“How the monster relished his savage war / On the Danes,”
14. Which words are the compound predicate in this excerpt?
A brother / Opens his palms and pours down gold / On his kinsman's grave
(“opens his palms and pours down gold”
“brother, opens his palms”
“pours down gold”
“pours down gold, on his kinsman's grave”
15. Which is the best meaning of the italicized word in the phrase “Are fervent with life”?
frightful
cowardly
cautious