SDASS

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Indiana Academic Super Bowl
English Round
2009 Senior Division Coaches Practice
A Program of the Indiana Association of School
Principals
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SD-CP-E-1

• In the phrase shifting himself to a safer
  distance to bed in the bothies, bothies
  means________.
• a. a small hut
• b. a bath tub
• c. a small village
• d. a forest

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SD-CP-E-2

• Beowulf sets sail to Heorot with_______.
• a. 14 men
• b. 15 men
• c. 16 men
• d. 20 men

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SD-CP-E-3

• The phrase she flew like a bird contains an
  example of________.
• a. metaphor
• b. symbolism
• c. simile
• d. imagery

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SD-CP-E-4

• Beowulf says he will fight Grendel with only___.
• a. his sword
• b. his shield
• c. his heavy war-board
• d. his hands

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SD-CP-E-5

• Wealhtheow is_______.
• a. Grendels mother
• b. Beowulfs wife
• c. Hrothgars wife
• d. Unferths sister

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SD-CP-E-6

• When Grendels mother attacks the hall, she does
  all of the following EXCEPT___________.
• a. takes a man
• b. takes Grendels arm
• c. takes Beowulfs rewards
• d. leaves in panic

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SD-CP-E-7

• The Danes are very distraught when they come upon
  ________ at the foot of the cliff.
• a. Grendels mother
• b. Hrothgars horse
• c. Aescheres head
• d. Beowulfs sword

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SD-CP-E-8

• Beowulf ruled the kingdom for______.
• a. 30 years
• b. 40 years
• c. 50 years
• d. 60 years

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SD-CP-E-9

• When Grendel attacks Herorot the first time, he
  kills________.
• a. 100 men
• b. 50 men
• c. 30 men
• d. 25 men

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SD-CP-E-10

• The Danes are unable to stay in Herorot for_____.
• a. 10 years
• b. 12 years
• c. 15 years
• d. 18 years

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SD-CP-E-11

• The passage walker of the worlds weird wall
  contains what rhetorical device?
• a. onomatopoeia
• b. personification
• c. alliteration
• d. metaphor

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SD-CP-E-12

• The setting for Grendels abode in Grendel has
  all of the following EXCEPT________.
• a. firesnakes
• b. smoke
• c. churning water
• d. sea monsters

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SD-CP-E-13

• When Grendel first sees the men, he does NOT
• think they are__________.
• a. thinking creatures
• b. pattern makers
• c. monsters
• d. very dangerous things

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SD-CP-E-14

• In the passage every cross-timber or falcons
  perch was carved and gewgawed with toads, snakes,
  dragon shapes, gewgawed means______.
• a. showy but worthless
• b. bejeweled
• c. lined
• d. crammed full of

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SD-CP-E-15

• Hrothgar, Grendel discovers, realizes he must do
  all of the following EXCEPT______________.
• a. no longer fight with his neighbors
• b. send men to gather his neighbors tributes to
  him
• c. build roads
• d. send messengers with friendly words and
  praises

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SD-CP-E-16

• The passage frail, foolish flicker-flash in the
  long dull fall of eternity contains_________.
• a. alliteration
• b. onomatopoeia
• c. personification
• d. irony

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SD-CP-E-17

• In Grendel, during his first raid on Hart,
  Grendel snatches_________.
• a. 5 men
• b. 7 men
• c. 10 men
• d. 15 men

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SD-CP-E-18

• When Grendel says, But though I laughed, I felt
  trapped, as hollow as a rotten tree, he
  means__________________.
• a. he sees himself going on and on in this same
  way
• b. he sees himself becoming trapped in an animal
  snare
• c. he thinks his life is a soap opera
• d. most rotten trees are hollow

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SD-CP-E-19

• Through her actions, we see that Wealhtheow has
  all of the following characteristics EXCEPT_____.
• a. a peace maker
• b. forgiving
• c. sorrowful and self-pitiful
• d. wise

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SD-CP-E-20

• The passage pale skin of words that closes me
  in like a coffin contains________.
• a. metaphor
• b. metonymy
• c. synecdoche
• d. simile

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SD-CP-E-21

• Women characters in Hrolf Kraki include all of
  the following EXCEPT______.
• a. queens
• b. sorceresses
• c. an herb healer
• d. an elfin woman

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SD-CP-E-22

• Odin is not________.
• a. one-eyed
• b. fickle
• c. a controller of destiny
• d. forgiving

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SD-CP-E-23

• What does Regin mean when he says then all
  places of shelter will be filled with snow ?
• a. There will soon be a blizzard.
• b. Snow will soon come and cover everything.
• c. There will be no place of refuge for the
  young princes.
• d. All of the shelters in the land will be
  covered with snow.

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SD-CP-E-24

• Helgi and Hroar are aided by all of the following
  EXCEPT________.
• a. Frodi
• b. Vifil
• c. Signy
• d. Jarl Saevil

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SD-CP-E-25

• Vifil does not hide the princes in___________.
• a. an underground room
• b. a hidden pantry off the kitchen
• c. the woods
• d. in the nearby underbrush

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SD-CP-E-26

• Signy tells her son Hrok that her
  brothers______________.
• a. cheated her out of her fathers estate
• b. gave her and Jarl Saevil a good reward many
  years before
• c. should give her and her son some kind of
  wealth/reward
• d. are liars and cheaters

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SD-CP-E-27

• Svipdag wants to leave his father for all of the
  following EXCEPT______________.
• a. he feels his life in the mountains is
  miserable.
• b. they never visit any people.
• c. no one ever visits them.
• d. he wants to go on a raid.

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SD-CP-E-28

• Queen Yrsa gives King Hrolf all of the following
  EXCEPT_______.
• a. a silver horn
• b. horses
• c. armament
• d. the gold ring

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SD-CP-E-29

• When King Olaf is killed, Harald____________.
• a. is wounded and captured
• b. is wounded but escapes
• c. becomes king
• d. seeks revenge for his brothers death

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SD-CP-E-30

• Harald travels to all of the following places
  EXCEPT________.
• a. Russia
• b. Greece
• c. Constantinople
• d. Sweden

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SD-CP-E-31

• With pride in all our hearts, Running like a
  forest stag contains________.
• a. metaphor
• b. simile
• c. juxtaposition
• d. anaphora

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SD-CP-E-32

• While King Harald gives half of his money to
• King Magnus he does not give Thorir of
• Steig_______________.
• a bowl carved from maple wood
• new-minted silver coins
• gold bracelets
• a new cloak

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SD-CP-E-33

• After Magnuss death, King Harald___________.
• a. said he intended to declare himself king of
  Denmark
• b. announced he was going to subjugate all of
  Denmark
• c. planned to not attend the burial/funeral of
  Magnus
• d. asked for the support of Thorir and his army

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SD-CP-E-34

• After Magnuss death, King Harald does all of the
  
• following EXCEPT__________________.
• He says he intends to declare himself king of
  Denmark
• He announces he is going to subjugate all of
  Denmark
• He does not attend the burial/funeral of Magnus
• asks for the support of the army

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SD-CP-E-35

• During Orris Battle, which of the following does
  not occur?
• a. King Harald is killed and beheaded
• b. some of the Norwegians collapsed from
  exhaustion and died unwounded
• c. nearly all the leading Norwegians are killed
• d. Eystein Orri carries Land-Waster

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SD-CP-E-36

• Bjorn the Black was_____________.
• a. a man who challenged men to fight
• b. Gislis killer
• c. the man married to Ingibjorg
• d. the man who killed the slave Kol

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SD-CP-E-37

• When Gisli was a young man, he killed another
  young man named Bard because Bard_________.
• a. had seduced Gislis sister Thordis
• b. had insulted Gislis family
• c. had stolen livestock from Gislis family
• d. had wounded Gisli in a fight

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SD-CP-E-38

• Thordis eventually marries________.
• a. Thorkel the Wealthy
• b. Thorgrim
• c. Vestein
• d. Eyjolf

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SD-CP-E-39

• Saebol is___________.
• a. Thordiss dowry
• b. Gislis sword
• c. Gislis farm
• d. Gislis brother

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SD-CP-E-40

• Vestein does NOT_________________.
• a. leave Gisli to see a friend and trading
  partner in England
• b. ask permission from Gisli to leave
• c. promise not to turn in Gisli
• d. promise to help Gisli if he is ever in danger

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SD-CP-E-41

• While Gisli and his men are seeing to the hay
  during some stormy weather,_______________.
• a. Vestein is killed
• b. Aud visits her sister
• c. Thord the Coward tried to kill Vestein
• d. all of Gislis animals are killed

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SD-CP-E-42

• Gisli____________________.
• a. goes to Thorgrims house and threatens him
• b. threatens Thorkel
• c. burns Saebol killing Thorgrim
• d. murders Thorgrim

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SD-CP-E-43

• The best definition of a scop is___________.
• a. a skaldic singer
• b. a tribal poet
• c. an Anglo-Saxon writer
• d. a Viking jester

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SD-CP-E-44

• Alliteration, a standard device in Beowulf,
  always occurs______________.
• a. at the end of a stanza
• b. on the stressed syllables
• c. in alternate lines
• d. with middle vowels

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SD-CP-E-45

• The phrase in Beowulf Dragging the dead man home
  to his den is an example of__________.
• a. onomatopoeia
• b. enjambment
• c. personification
• d. alliteration

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SD-CP-E-46

• Beowulf has strong overtones of wyrd, which
  Heaney translates as_____.
• a. power
• b. lust
• c. fate
• d. envy

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SD-CP-E-47

• Skaldic poetry is generally_____.
• a. epic
• b. mournful
• c. didactic
• d. historical

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SD-CP-E-48

• Skaldic poetry is fundamentally___________.
• a. representational
• b. elegiac
• c. alliterative
• d. dramatic

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SD-CP-E-49

• Skaldic poetry is alliterative, defined as the
  rhyming of_______.
• a. sounds
• b. letters
• c. consonants
• d. symbols

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SD-CP-E-50

• In terms of his status in court, the skald was
  regarded as a_________.
• a. powerful prophet
• b. slave or lackey
• c. respected adviser
• d. clown or jester

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SD-CP-E-51

• Skaldic poetrys subject usually
  details_________________.
• a. the history of the Scandinavian peoples
• b. the deeds of the skalds king
• c. the monsters of the deep
• d. the celebrated victories of the Vikings

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SD-CP-E-52

• Which poetic structure was very short and
  considered an insult to a powerful lord because
  of its slight effort?
• a. a flokkr
• b. a stef
• c. a drapa
• d. a skothending

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SD-CP-E-53

• Referring to a camel as the ship of the desert
  is an example of________.
• a. alliteration
• b. personification
• c. kenning
• d. baroque

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SD-CP-E-54

• The drottkvoett stanza is also known as
  the_________.
• a. Old Norse sonnet
• b. Elegiac refrain
• c. Skaldic lament
• d. Lordly metre

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SD-CP-E-55

• The heavy pause between the two half-lines of
  alliterative verse is called a_______.
• a. caesura
• b. stef
• c. conjunctive pause
• d. skaldic bridge

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SD-CP-E-56

• Modern applications of sections of The Wanderer
  are apparent in the works of_______.
• a. Heany
• b. Aragorn
• c. Tolkien
• d. Tolstoy

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SD-CP-E-57

• The underlying condition of the wanderer is one
  of____________.
• a. cautious hope
• b. passive resistance
• c. angry acceptance
• d. undesired solitude

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SD-CP-E-58

• In The Wanderer the reference to the harbinger
  of winter refers to______.
• a. the frost
• b. the dark
• c. the wind
• d. a hailstorm

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SD-CP-E-59

• The Seafarer is most commonly referred to
  as_______.
• a. a eulogy
• b. a narrative
• c. an autobiography
• d. an elegy

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SD-CP-E-60

• The Seafarer says he has substituted the laughter
  of the mead-hall for the sounds of_________.
• a. an empty ship
• b. the birds
• c. the animals of the forest
• d. the wails of dead warriors

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SD-CP-E-61

• From whose point of view is The Battle of
  Maldon written?
• a. The Herald
• b. The Danes
• c. The Maldese Citizen
• d. The English

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SD-CP-E-62

• In The Battle of Maldon the true heroes
  were___________________.
• a. the English who escaped
• b. the Vikings who showed mercy
• c. the English who died
• d. the Vikings who conquered

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SD-CP-E-63

• The turning point of The Battle of Maldon
  occurred________________.
• a. when the Vikings entered the Causeway
• b. when the last English heroes fall
• c. when the tide begins to ebb
• d. when Brithnoth is killed

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SD-CP-E-64

• In Baldrs draumar Odin journeys to hell to
  discover who will slay Balder. Who is it?
• a. Hodur, his brother
• b. Frigg, his mother
• c. Loki, the shape-changer
• d. Sleipnir, the eight-legged

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SD-CP-E-65

• In Baldrs draumar there are several references
  to runes, which are______.
• a. caves
• b. secrets
• c. journeys
• d. sins

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SD-CP-E-66

• The Old English riddles are a metaphoric and
  metamorphic______________.
• a. series of journeys
• b. focus on the hereafter
• c. celebration of life
• d. story of the Norse gods

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SD-CP-E-67

• In the Exeters Riddle 24 the lines indicate
  that the book described is probably__________.
• a. The Bible
• b. The Exeter Book
• c. The Book of Runes
• d. The Riddles of the Apocalypse

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SD-CP-E-68

• The solutions to most of the Exeter riddles lie
  in__________.
• a. Norse mythology
• b. everyday things
• c. mysterious parables
• d. a series of runes

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SD-CP-E-69

• The Wifes Lament is usually treated as______.
• a. a womans song
• b. a lyric of exile
• c. a hymn of mourning
• d. a separation lament

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SD-CP-E-70

• Because of inclusion of expressions like
  earth-cave and barrows, there is some
  argument that the female speaker in Wifes
  Lament is______.
• a. divorced
• b. widowed
• c. in hiding
• d. dead

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End of English Round
Senior Super Bowl Area Contest April 21, 2009
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SD English Coaches Practice Answer Key

• 1. A
• 2. A
• 3. C
• 4. D
• 5. C
• 6. C
• 7. C
• 8. C
• C
• B
• 11. C
• 12. D
• 13. C
• A
• 15. D
• 16. A
• 17. B
• 18. A

19. C 20. D 21. C 22. D 23. C 24.
A 25. B 26. C 27. D 28. D 29. B 30. D 31.
B 32. D 33. D 34. C 35. A 36. A

• 37. A
• 38. B
• 39. A
• 40. C
• 41. A
• 42. D
• 43. B
• 44. B
• 45. D
• 46. C
• 47. D
• 48. C
• A
• 50. C
• 51. B
• 52. A
• 53. C
• 54. D

55. A 56. C 57. D 58. A 59. D 60. B 61.
D 62. C 63. D 64. A 65. B 66. C 67. A 68.
B 69. A 70. D