Opción múltiple v2

According to Beowulf’s offering to King Dane Hrothgar for fighting against Grendel, who’s Beowulf?

a) Hrothgar’s nephew

b) Hygelac’s kinsman who also serves in his fellowship

c) The King of the Geats

d) Hygelac’s son

… ‘Health to Hrothgar! I am Hygelac’s kinsman and serve in his fellowship.’

Grendel’s weapons in battle were…

a) Shield and sword

b) Bow and arrow

c) None

d) Axe and knife

‘As I am informed that this unlovely one is careless enough to carry no weapon…’

Beowulf calls with at least three appellatives to King Dane Hrothgar, they are…

a) Royal Scylding, Fastness of Warriors and Shield of the South Danes

b) Royal Scyfing, Fastness of Warriors and Shield of the South Danes

c) Great King, Dear Lord of your people and Shephard of his people

d) Royal Scylding, Shield of the North Danes and Lord of the South Danes

‘To you I will now put one request, Royal Scylding, Shield of the South Danes, one sole favour that you’ll not deny me, dear lord of your people, now that I have come thus far, Fastness of Warriors…’

What was the first thing that happened when Grendel arrived to Heorot?

a) He fought against Beowulf and lost

b) He wandered through the halls

c) He ate two sleeping men

d) He ate one sleeping man

‘As a first step he set his hands on a sleeping soldier, savagely tore at him, gnashed at his bone-joints, bolted huge gobbets, sucked at his veins, and had soon eaten all of the dead man, even down to his hands and feet.’

How Beowulf defeated Grendel and what did he do after winning the battle?

a) Beowulf with a sword mortally wounded to Grendel, then cut off Grendel’s head

b) Beowulf torn apart Grendel’s shoulder and arm, then hung them from the roof

c) Beowulf torn apart Grendel’s shoulder and arm, then shown them to Hrothgar

d) Beowulf torn apart Grendel’s shoulder and arm, then gave them to Hrothgar

‘A breach in the giant flesh-frame showed then, shoulder-muscles sprang apart, there was a snapping of tendons, bone-locks burst. To Beowulf the glory of this fight was granted… As a signal to all the hero hung up the hand, the arm and torn-off shoulder, the entire limb, Grendel’s whole grip, below the gable of the roof.’

The author calls with at least two appellatives to Heorot. They are…

a) Gold-hall and wine-supper-hall

b) Mead-hall and great hall

c) Hall and The hall

d) Drinking place and famous hall

‘It was indeed wonderful that the wine-supper-hall withstood the wrestling pair… He came on under the clouds, clearly saw at last the gold-hall of the men…’

When Beowulf offers King Dane Hrothgar to fight against Grendel, he boasts of two of his many deeds. They are…

a) To have defeated a dragon and five giants

b) To have defeated the champion of the merovigians and a wave sea serpent

c) To have defeated five giants and a wave sea serpent

d) To have defeated five giants and wave sea serpents

‘… Had they not seen me come home from fights where I had bound five Giants-their blood was upon me-cleaned out a nest of them? Had I not crushed on the wave sea-serpents by night in narrow struggle, broken the beasts? ...’

The only weapon that could hurt Grendel was…

a) A bow and arrow made by elves

b) Odin’s spear ‘Guguir’

c) None

d) A sword forged by giants

‘They were ignorant of this, when they entered the fight, boldly-intentioned battle-friends, to hew at Grendel, hunt his life on every side-that no sword on earth, not the truest steel, could touch their assailant; for by a spell he had disposed all blades of their bite on him…’

The verbs that are in gerund in the speech of Beowulf when offering to the Danish king Hrothgar to fight against Grendel are…

a) Standing, bearing, shielding, eating, misgiving

b) Eating, drinking, disposing, evening, scylding

c) Shielding, bearing, eating, misgiving, scylding

d) Fame-winning, eating, misgiving, shielding, bearing

...The sailors speak of this splendid hall, this most stately building, standing idle and silent of voices, as soon as the evening light has hidden below the heaven’s bright edge...
...As I am informed that this unlovely one is careless enough to carry no weapon, so that my lord Hygelac, my leader in war, may take joy in me, I abjure utterly the bearing of sword or shielding yellow board in this battle! With bare hands shall I grapple with the fiend, fight to the death here, hater and hated! He who is chosen shall deliver himself to the Lord’s judgement...
...He will bear my bloody corpse away, bent on eating it, make his meal alone, without misgiving, bespatter his moor-lair- The disposing of my body need occupy you no further then...

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