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Characters
Traits and Appearance
1. Knight
2. Squire
3. Yeoman
4. Nun
5. Monk
6. Friar
7 Merchant
8. Oxford Cleric
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32 Adapted Reader's Notebook

The correct answer for the question that is being presented above is this one: "D) The most clever men in the kingdom set out to kill Grendel." At the end it speaks of his great strength, an attribute of most heroes. 

Here are the following choices:
A) The king asked Beowulf to travel to his kingdom to slay Grendel.
B) Beowulf's countrymen encouraged him to help defeat Grendel.
C) Stories of Grendel's strength were told throughout Hrothgar's lands.
D) The most clever men in the kingdom set out to kill Grendel.