Chapter 1 1. when the ram will not move, what does grendel throw at it? 2. how long has grendel been involved in his "idiotic war"? 3. what question does grendel ask the sky? 4. what does grendel smell like? 5. whose head had grendel once torn off? 6. what three metaphors does grendel use to describe himself: 7. what is grendel’s "only friend and comfort this world affords"? 8. describe grendel’s home underground. 9. of what is grendel terrified? 10. what animal crosses grendel’s path on his way to hrothgar’s hall? 11. how does grendel describe his own mother? 12. how does grendel’s mother respond when he asks her why they live in this "putrid, stinking hole"? 13. who was not a friend to grendel? grendel - reading guide - page 2 14. how long has grendel been going to hrothgar’s meadhall? 15. what makes grendel laugh? 16. what is grendel alone able to do in the dark? 17. what does grendel do in the meadhall? 18. how does he feel afterward? 19. what does grendel hear the people do after he leaves the meadhall? 20. why do the men build a funeral pyre? 21. what do the men replace once again? 22. what do the men also throw in the fire? 23. how does grendel react when he hears the men sing? chapter 2 24. what had grendel done when he was young?