PAGES 2-5 NAME ______ENGLISH 8: BEOWULF REVIEW 1. Who are the old enemies of the Geats? DATE ______YOUR HOUR __

10. (Use your vocabulary list.) What are 2. What is Gangleri’s job as Wanderer? the “woven stories on the four walls”?

3. About how old is Beowulf at the opening of the story? 11.How will Beowulf battle Grendel?

4. Why does Beowulf feel that it is his duty to help the enemy king? 12. Who calls Beowulf a “poppycock hero”?

13. What is Wealtheow’s royal title? 5. Why has Grendel been attacking the Danes for 12 years? 14. What did Beowulf’s men believe as they prepared to sleep that first night in Heorot?

6. What is Grendel the father of? 15. What happens to Leofric that night?

7. (Use your vocabulary list.) What is Grendel’s spoor? 16. Why won’t swords work against Grendel?

8. According to Beowulf’s king, what 17. What do the Geats hang under the should brave men do? (Use quotes) gable?

18. Why does Wealtheow worry when PAGES 6-25 her husband treats Beowulf like a son?

9. What did the Danish coastguard say after Beowulf said he had come to defeat 19. Who carries off Aeschere? Grendel? (use quotes)

20. What does Hrothgar’s face look like when he finds Aeschere missing? PAGES 26-37 32. What does Wiglaf predict will happen now that Beowulf is dead? 21. Who is the Sea-Wolf?

33. Who is the man with one gleaming 22. What saved Beowulf from the Sea- eye that walks around saying, “Now it is Wolf’s dagger? finished. And you finished it”?

23. What happens to the double-edged 34. What do the Geats do with the sword made by giants? dragon’s treasure?

35. Why did the people love Beowulf? 24. Why had the Danes left when the “water boiled with blood”?

36. What proof is there that Beowulf’s PAGES 38-END fame lives on even today?

25. How many years did Beowulf rule the Geats? The following passages are written in 26. Why did the dragon seek revenge? figurative language using metaphors, similes, and personification. Try to rewrite each one into literal language. 27. Why doesn’t Wiglaf want Beowulf For example, on page 6 it says, “The to fight the dragon? great sea-bird rode over the breakers.” You would rewrite it to say, “the boat floated on top of the waves.” 28. Why is Wiglaf angry with some of the Geats? 37. “But every wise man knows that a wide ocean divides a man’s words from his deeds.” (page 9)

29. What does Beowulf want Wiglaf and his men to build? 38. “Their blood began to sing.” (11)

30. What two purposes will this thing serve that Beowulf wants them to build? 39. “Where others sing praises, you sow dragon’s teeth.” (14)

40. Sky swallowed the plume.” (46) 31. How big was the dragon?