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In Beowulf, who was the big guy that decided he was going to help the king
of the Danes (Hroghthr)? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Beowulf
What is herot? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the mead hall
Why does Beowulf decide he is going to journey to Denmark? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Grendel is eating people
Is Beowulf a boastful guy? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔yes
,How is Beowulf boastful? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-boasts about killing sea
monsters
-boasts about beating giants
-brags about his lineage
-brags about how he is going to defeat Grendel
Why doesn't it hurt Grendel when the soldiers strike him? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔he put a spell on his skin so that mortal weapons won't hurt him
How does Beowulf manage to kill Grendel? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔They fight for
while then Beowulf rips his arm off
How do we know that Beowulf is an honorable guy? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔He
keeps his word
Risked his life to save others
Vows not to use weapons
How long had Grendel been terrorizing the Danes? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔12
winters (years)
, In the Canterbury Tales, what was the goal of the pilgrims traveling to
Canterbury? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔They were going see the holy shrine of
Thomas Beckett
In the Canterbury Tales, where do the pilgrims get together? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔South Wark, London in a bar called Tavern Inn
In the Canterbury Tales, what does the person with the best story win? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔they win dinner when they get back
What qualifies the Wife of Bath to tell her story? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔○ She
has had 5 marriages
○ Knows about the oldest dances (knows all about sex and relationships)
How does the pardoner's tale start? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔with 3 gentlemen
(rioters) in a bar
In the pardoner's tale what are they looking for and why? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔They want to go find death because death has been killing their friends
Pardoner's Tale - What was the illness that was spreading during this time?
- 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔black plague
Pardoner's Tale - What is being personified? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔death
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