Beowulf Test Review Jeopardy: Jeopardy Review Game
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Literary Elements Answer 1: “For Beowulf, the price of this last victory will be great.”
Literary Elements Question 1: WHAT IS FORESHADOWING?
Literary Elements Answer 2: “And over and over they swore that nowhere / On earth or under the spreading sky / Or between the seas, neither south nor north, / Was there a warrior worthier to rule over men.”
Literary Elements Question 2: WHAT IS ALLITERATION?
Literary Elements Answer 3: “And all at once the greedy she-wolf / Who’d ruled those waters for half a hundred / Years discovered him…”
Literary Elements Question 3: WHAT IS A KENNING?
Literary Elements Answer 4: “…When night had covered the earth with its net / And the shapes of darkness moved black and silent / Through the world.”
Literary Elements Question 4: WHAT IS IMAGERY?
Literary Elements Answer 5: “They could hack at Grendel / From every side, trying to open / A path for his evil soul, but their points / Could not scratch at his skin, for that sin-stained demon / Had bewitched all men’s weapons, laid spells / That blunted every mortal man’s blade.”
Literary Elements Question 5: WHAT ARE CHRISTIAN / PAGAN ELEMENTS?
Characters Answer 1: King of the Danes whose throne is protected by God
Characters Question 1: WHO IS KING HROTHGAR?
Characters Answer 2: Beowulf’s father
Characters Question 2: WHO IS EDGETHO?
Characters Answer 3: Beowulf’s uncle and feudal lord
Characters Question 3: WHO IS HIGLAC?
Characters Answer 4: Wiglaf’s father
Characters Question 4: WHO IS WEXSTAN?
Characters Answer 5: The sea beast who sought revenge for the death of her son
Characters Question 5: WHO IS Grendel’s mother?
Numbers Answer 1: Brave Geats that went to Denmark to defeat Grendel
Numbers Question 1: WHAT IS 14?
Numbers Answer 2: The number of years Grendel terrorized Herot Hall
Numbers Question 2: WHAT IS 12 WINTERS/YEARS
Numbers Answer 3: The number of years Beowulf reigned as King of the Geats
Numbers Question 3: WHAT IS 50?
Numbers Answer 4: The number of battles that Beowulf fought before his death. (Mentioned in the poem)
Numbers Question 4: WHAT IS 3?
Numbers Answer 5: The number of Geats that rode their horses around Beowulf’s burial tower.
Numbers Question 5: WHAT IS 12?
Who Said It? Answer 1: “Let me live in greatness and courage, or here in this hall welcome my death!”
Who Said It? Question 1: WHO IS BEOWULF?
Who Said It? Answer 2: “Beowulf, you’ve come to us in friendship, and because of the reception your father found at our court.”
Who Said It? Question 2: WHO IS KING HROTHGAR?
Who Said It? Answer 3: “I’ve heard that my people, peasants working in the fields, have seen a pair of such fiends wandering in the marshes…”
Who Said It? Question 3: WHO IS King Hrothgar?
Who Said It. Answer 4: “Our only help, again, lies in you Who Said It? Answer 4: “Our only help, again, lies in you. Grendel’s mother is hidden in her terrible home, in a place you’ve not seen. Seek it, if you dare! Save us, once more, and again twisted gold, heaped-up ancient treasure, will reward you for the battle you win!”
Who Said It? Question 4: WHO IS KING HROTHGAR?
Who Said It? Answer 5: “All of us swore to repay him, when the time came, kindness for kindness—with our lives, if he needed them.”
Who Said It? Question 5: WHO IS WIGLAF?
Vocabulary Answer 1: To irritate or annoy
Vocabulary Question 1: What is Vexed?
Vocabulary Answer 2: Liquor made from fermented honey and water
Vocabulary Question 2: WHAT IS MEAD
Vocabulary Answer 3: COMFORT OR RELIEF
Vocabulary Question 3: WHAT IS SOLACE?
Vocabulary Answer 4: TO RIGHT A WRONG
Vocabulary Question 4: WHAT IS REDRESS?
Vocabulary Answer 5: CHARMING
Vocabulary Question 5: WHAT IS WINSOME?
Final Jeopardy Answer: THE ONE THING THAT CAN DESTROY HEROT HALL
Final Jeopardy Question: WHAT IS FIRE?