ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE EXPANDED QUIZ

I. Matching: History
II. Identify the segment of poetry as Anglo-Saxon: 4 characteristics
III. Fill in the blanks: Anglo-Saxon poetry, culture, and daily life
IV. True or False: Beowulf, “The Seafarer”
V. Completion: potpourri of questions
VI. 10 multiple choice about some “new” Anglo-Saxon poetry

REVIEW QUESTIONS FROM JEOPARDY GAME

HISTORY
1. He was nicknamed “the Great” and defeated the Danes
2. The 3 Germanic tribes
3. Money paid to the Danes as a bribe
4. Nicknamed “the Unready,” he bribed the Danes
5. Wall built by the Romans to separate England from Scotland
6. Bridge that the King of Norway brought down
7. Term for people with no written language
8. The area of England controlled by the Danes
9. Original inhabitants of England
10. Nation that controlled England from 43 to 410 AD

SCOPS
11. The “whale-road” is an example of one
12. Instrument of the scops
13. A purposeful pause within a line of poetry
14. An example is “Grendel greedily grappled…”
15. Number of accented beats in a line of Old English poetry

BEOWULF
16. Beowulf’s sidekick
17. The Danish mead-hall
18. Beowulf’s people
19. The number of men Grendel kills on his first trip to Herot
20. Term for “the warrior band.” Beowulf chooses 14 of his bravest companions to
accompany him.
21. King of the Danes
22. What Beowulf takes into battle with him when he meets Grendel
23. What becomes of the treasure Beowulf wins from the dragon
24. The number of years after he defeats Grendel that Beowulf tackles the dragon
25. Grendel’s Mother’s weapon against Beowulf
26. Dane who taunts Beowulf
27. Religion of the individual who wrote down Beowulf
28. The two significant females in this epic
29. What is built over Beowulf’s grave
30. Sword loaned to Beowulf by Unferth
“THE SEAFARER”
31. Style of poetry that mourns the passing of “the good old days.”
32. Name the 2 contrasting religious influences/beliefs in “The Seafarer”
33. The “home port” that the speaker of “The Seafarer” seeks
34. The problem with “earthly joys” that the Seafarer notes
35. Name one of Fate’s three threats

LANGUAGE
36. Spelling of the Anglo-Saxon word for fate
37.
38. England was named for this Germanic tribe
39. The language of the church
40. Two things—in addition to a common language—that united the Angles, Saxons,
and Jutes.

MIXED BAG
41. Anglo-Saxon alcoholic drink of choice.
42. These popular verbal puzzles were really just expanded kennings
43. Beowulf is an example of this literary form
44.
45. Title/ term for the Anglo-Saxon poet
ANSWERS

1. Alfred
2. Angles, Saxons, Jutes
3. danegeld
4. Ethelred
5. Hadrian’s
6. London
7. preliterate
8. Danelaw
9. Celts
10. Rome
11. kenning
12. harp
13. caesura
14. alliteration
15. 4
16. Wiglaf
17. Herot
18. Geats
19. 30
20. comitatus
21. Hrothgar
22. nothing
23. It is buried with him.
24. 50
25. claws and dagger
26. Unferth
27. Christian
28. Grendel’s Mother and Hrothgar’s wife (Queen Welthow)
29. tower (lighthouse)
30. Hrunting
31. elegiac
32. Christian and pagan
33. heaven
34. They are temporary.
35. old age, illness, or weapons (war)
36. Wyrd
37. runes
38. Angles
39. Latin
40. a common enemy and a common religion
41. mead
42. riddles
43. epic
44. Eowyn
45. scop