Grendel Exam

Introduction

This is a short little exam, designed to test your recall of the work and how well you think.

Objects

Identify the following objects.

Half dead tree

Lost arm

Apples

Ram

Cliff Edge

Roads

Bear

Mead

Quotes

Identify the following quotes. What is the significance-Don’t worry about who said them.

"They’d map out the roads of hell with their crackpot theories."

 

"That is their happiness. They see all life without observing it. They’re buried in it like crabs in the mud. Except men of course."

 

"He shapes the world…He stares strange-eyed at the mindless world and turns dry sticks to gold."

 

"Never, never, never touch my things."

 

"Seek out gold-and guard it…..BE STILL"

 

"A sea of black oil and dead things."

 

"This one red hour makes your reputation or mine."

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Quotes

"Only you and I and God will know the truth. That’s inner heroism."

 

"Her smooth long hair was as red as fire and soft as the ruddy sheen on dragon’s gold."

 

"What he was: A thinking animal stripped naked of illusions, stubbornly living on, ashamed and meaningless, because killing himself would be, like his life, unheroic."

 

 

"The law of the world is winter law, and casual."

 

"Public force is the life and soul of every state."

 

"Tedium is the worst pain."

 

"Mumbling, mumbling, sacrificing the slain world to the omnipotence of words."

 

"Fate, often enough, will spare a man, if his courage holds."

 

"Time is the mind. The hand that makes (fingers on harpstings, hero-swords, the acts, the eyes of queens) By that I kill you."