Grendel Quizzes

1. What is Grendel trying to scare at the beginning of the novel?

• a ram
• an old woman
• a bull
• a warrior

2. How long has Grendel been in conflict with Hrothgar?

• 5 years
• 7 years
• 20 years
• 12 years

3. Where does Grendel live?

• an underground cave
• on a mountaintop
• in a dungeon
• in an oak tree

4. What philosophy does Grendel espouse in Chapter 1?

• existentialism
• solipsism
• cyclical reality
• nihilism

5. What lurks in the pool near Grendel's lair?

• sea serpents
• squids
• crocodiles
• firesnakes

6. In what does Grendel become trapped on his visit to the sunlit world?

• a hunter's net
• an oak tree
• a small cave
• a pool of quicksand

7. What does Hrothgar first think Grendel is?

• a tree spirit
• a statue
• an old man
• a monster

8. What do the first warriors who meet Grendel attempt to do to him?

• kill a goat for him
• feed him a pig
• avoid him
• give him treasures

9. When Grendel becomes trapped, what attacks him?

• his mother
• a ram
• a dragon
• a bull

10. Who or what rescues Grendel from Hrothgar's torment?

• a suden storm
• the dragon
• a ram
• Grendel's mother