Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Grendel? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Which character says: "The world is all pointless accident... I exist, nothing else"?
Hygmod
Grendel
The dragon
Beowulf
Q. "It was a cold-blooded lie that a god had lovingly made the world and set out the sun and moon as lights to land-dwellers, that brothers had fought, that one of the races was saved, the other cursed." Who's the liar here?
Ork
Red Horse
The Shaper
Hrothgar
Q. Who theorizes that "Revolution, my dear prince, is not the substitution of immoral for moral, or of illegitimate for legitimate violence; it is simply the pitting of power against power, where the issue is freedom for the winners and enslavement for the rest"?
Unferth
Beowulf
Red Horse
The Shaper
Q. "And so in my cave, coughing from the smoke and clenching feet on fire with chilblains, I ground my teeth on my own absurdity. Whatever their excuse might be, I had none, I knew: I had seen the dragon. Ashes to ashes. And yet I was teased... toward disbelief in the dragon's truths." What torments Grendel so much here?
Mama Grendel's behavior
The Shaper's songs
The injustice of humanity
Wealtheow's beauty
Q. "The old king chatted of his plans for Freawaru... The stranger smiled on, but closed his eyes. He knew a doomed house when he saw it, I had a feeling; but for one reason or another he kept his peace." What exactly is this really bad plan Hrothgar has for Freawaru?
He plans to use her as a virgin sacrifice
He wants to send her to a convent
He has engaged her to an enemy king
He has decided to offer her to Grendel