Unit Test 1

Question 1

What is Beowulf? (think genre)

Answer 1

epic poem

Question 2

What period did Beowulf occur during?

Answer 2

emergent period

Question 3

What is Beowulf himself believed to be?

Answer 3

a viking

Question 4

What is the name of the guy who challenged Beowulf?

Answer 4

unferth

Question 5

Does Beowulf help out of the kindness of his heart or does he prefer to be paid?

Answer 5

paid

Question 6

How many total battles does Beowulf fight?

Answer 6

3

Question 7

Who were Beowulf three battles?

Answer 7

grendel, grendels mother, and the dragon

Question 8

What happened during Beowulf fight with Grendel?

Answer 8

Beowulf kills grendel by using one of his soldiers as bait, rips off his arm and kills him, and then hangs grendels arm from the beam/rafter

Question 9

Where did Beowulf fight grendels mom?

Answer 9

if the depth of the lake

Question 10

What occured during Beowulfs fight with grendels mom?

Answer 10

Beowulf chopped her up with his sword all while holding his breath underwater

Question 11

Why did Beowulf fight the dragon?

Answer 11

bc the dragon was laying waste to the land of the geets since someone took his gold

Question 12

What occurred during Beowulfs battle with the dragon?

Answer 12

Beowulf wins the battle but dies at the end

Question 13

What occurred upon Beowulfs death?

Answer 13

Wiglaf becomes king

Question 14

What is the gold ceiling in the hall of the Beowulf story thought to represent?

Answer 14

heaven

Question 15

What is Geoffrey Chaucer’s title?

Answer 15

the father of poetry

Question 16

When did the canterbury tales occur?

Answer 16

middle ages (1387)

Question 17

How are the canterbury tales told?

Answer 17

through a series of stores revealed on a pilgrimage journey

Question 18

How is the squire portrayed?

Answer 18

as a ladies knight

Question 19

How is the nun portrayed?

Answer 19

as a hypricorate

Question 20

How is the fried portrayed?

Answer 20

he sells absolution for money

Question 21

How is the knight portrayed?

Answer 21

nothing but positive things

Question 22

What was the purpose of a modest proposal?

Answer 22

a protest movement on poverty

Question 23

What is a modest proposal considered? (think literallary terms)

Answer 23

a satire piece

Question 24

How did the story of frankenstien come to be?

Answer 24

mary shelly told the story at a party with her friends when she was 19

Question 25

What was so extraordinary about frankenstien?

Answer 25

it was written by a girl and it was a horror genre which was confined to specifically men

Question 26

How does dr. frankenstien make his monster?

Answer 26

he collects different dead peoples bodies parts and stitches them together to make the perfectly proportioned monster

Question 27

What is dr. frankenstiens realization upon givng the monster life?

Answer 27

he was appaled and horrified… so much so that he ran away

Question 28

What is frankenstien concidered? (think genre)

Answer 28

gothic

Question 29

Who is frankenstien?

Answer 29

the doctor

Question 30

Who enforces the kings laws and is loyal to prince john?

Answer 30

the sheriff of nittingham

Question 31

Who is sir guy of gisborne?

Answer 31

a hired mercenary that is out to kill robin hood

Question 32

Who is prince john?

Answer 32

king richards brother who refuses to accept the magna carta

Question 33

What happened to king richard?

Answer 33

he is away fighting the crusades

Question 34

Who does robin hood and his gang remain loyal too?

Answer 34

king richard

Question 35

Who is maid marion?

Answer 35

robin hoods love intrest who is accused of treason for allying herself with robin hood