FOURTH PRELIM EXAMINATION

in English 8
NAME: ________________________________ SCORE: _________
TEACHER: Miss Ilyn R. Bacan

Test I- Write the letter of the correct answer.

1. Where is Beowulf from? c. Fourteen

a. Angle-Land d. Thirty
b. Denmark
c. Geatland 7. How did Hrothgar know of Beowulf?
d. Heorot a. Beowulf had saved Hrothgar's daughter
from a dragon
2. Who is Beowulf's father? b. Hrothgar had done a favor for Beowulf's
a. Breca father
b. Ecgtheow Hrothgar was Beowulf's uncle
c. Hrothgar c. A scop had written a poem about Beowulf
d. Hygelac that made him famous

3. Who rules Geatland at the beginning of 8. What jealous character taunts Beowulf
the poem? during the festivities in Heorot?
a. Beow a. Aeschere
b. Ecgtheow b. Hrothulf
c. Hygelac c. Offa
d. Offa d. Unferth
9. In Heorot, Beowulf relates the tale of how
4. What is a scop? he defeated his childhood friend, Breca, in
a. A poet what kind of competition?
b. A ship a. A foot race
c. A type of necklace b. A hneftafl game
d. A weapon c. A swimming race
5. Who are the Scyldings? d. A wrestling match
a. Demigods 10. How does Beowulf kill Grendel?
b. Enemies of Geatland from Norway a. He buries an axe in Grendel's head.
c. Hrothgar's warriors b. He chops off Grendel's head with his
d. Swamp monsters sword.
c. He runs his sword through Grendel's
heart.
6. The first night that Grendel attacked the d. He tears off Grendel's arm at the shoulder
mead-hall, Heorot, how many Scyldings did with his bare hands.
he kill?
a. Two
b. Seven
11. What is Grendel's mother's name? 17. What was the name of the sword
a. Gretyl Beowulf used to fight the dragon?
b. Hygd a. Caliburn
c. Modthryth b. Hrunting
d. She is never named c. Naegling
d. Ted
12. Grendel's mother abducted and
decapitated Aeschere. Who was Aeschere? 18. Who was the only one of Beowulf's
a. Beowulf's closest companion retainers that didn't run away when he
b. Hrothgar's most trusted advisor fought the dragon?
c. Hrothgar's nephew a. Heardred
d. Unferth's brother b. Hrethen
c. Sigemund
13. Who lends Beowulf a sword to fight d. Wiglaf
Grendel's mother?
a. Aeschere's son 19. Beowulf's body was burned on a funeral
b. Hrothgar pyre. What happened to his ashes?
c. Hrothgar's son a. They were kept in an urn in the palace of
d. Unferth Geatland
b. They were buried in a barrow on the
14. What does Hrothgar's wife, Wealhtheow, headland of the coast
give Beowulf? c. They were placed in the family crypt
a. A ring d. They were scattered in the lake where
b. A sword he'd faced Grendel's mother
c. A torque
d. A kiss 20. The Beowulf poem is believed to have
been composed sometime in the seventh
15. How does Beowulf become King of the century, but it wasn't written down until
Geats? when?
a. He overthrows Hygelac a. Sometime in the late eighth century
b. He takes the throne when Hygelac dies, b. About 920 or 930
having been named his heir c. About the year 1000
c. He takes the throne when Hygelac's son d. Sometime between 1166 and 1179
dies
d. He's never King of the Geats 21. How many copies of the Beowulf
manuscript survive from the 11th century?
16. Why did the dragon threaten Geatland? a. Only one
a. A party of adventurers tried to kill it b. Three
b. A bejeweled cup was stolen from its c. Seven, including two fragments
hoard d. There is no surviving original; we only
c. Beowulf ceased paying its annual tribute have later copies
d. Its food supply was cut off when all the
local virgins moved away
22. Scholars believe the original manuscript 24. The first transcription of the Beowulf
was inscribed by how many different poem was made by Icelandic scholar Grimur
people? Jonsson Thorkelin in 1818. At this time,
a. Only one Thorkelin translated the poem from Old
b. Two English into what language?
c. Three or more a. Danish
d. There's no way to tell b. Icelandic
c. Latin
23. What happened to the manuscript in d. Swedish
1731?
a. It was damaged in a fire 25. Where is the Beowulf manuscript today?
b. It was purchased by the Vatican a. In the British Library
c. It was stolen b. At Cambridge University
d. It was taken to America c. At Oxford University
d. In the Tower of London

Test II- ESSAY (10 points each)

1. How do the myths differentiate between human and divine power?

2. What do the Greek myths suggest about tragedy?

3. What have the myths to tell us about love?