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Grade 12 Beowulf
Which of the following is an example of a kenning used to describe Grendel?
  1. The Almighty
  2. Healfdane's Son
  3. The Mighty Protector of Men
  4. Hell's Captive
Grade 12 Beowulf
Anlgo-Saxon poetry has been characterized as "elegiac." An elegy is a lament for
  1. the living
  2. the dead
  3. the newly born
  4. the moon
Grade 12 Beowulf
What did archaeologists find at Sutton Hoo in East Anglia, England, in 1939?
  1. Ancient Roman ruins
  2. Evidence of a ship burial
  3. Beowulf's bones
  4. Evidence that Grendel truly existed
Grade 12 Beowulf
Which of the following is a kenning to describe Grendel's mother?
  1. The mighty water witch
  2. The graybeards
  3. Edgetho's Son
  4. The Geats' brave prince
Grade 12 Beowulf
In the prologue to Beowulf (the opening lines) Scyld Scefing is described as "feasceaft funden." This means what?
  1. He was found as an orphan
  2. He was forgetful
  3. He was frightful
  4. He was freaky
Grade 12 Beowulf
Which of the following words is not from Old English?
  1. friend
  2. religion
  3. sun
  4. king
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