Read the passage from beowulf. wealhtheow came in, hrothgar’s queen, observing the courtesies. adorned in her gold, she graciously saluted the men in hall, then handed the cup first to hrothgar, their homeland’s guardian, urging him to drink deep and enjoy it because he was dear to them. and he drank it down like the warlord he was, with festive cheer. so the helming woman went on her rounds, queenly and dignified, decked out in rings, offering the goblet to all ranks, treating the household and the assembled troop until it was beowulf’s turn to take it from her hand. with measured words she welcomed the geat and god for granting her wish that a deliverer she could believe in would arrive to ease their afflictions. which inference is most supported by the passage? wealhtheow is more interested in wealth and power than she is in the safety of her people. wealhtheow is not that beowulf and his men have arrived to fight with grendel. wealhtheow is nervous speaking in front of beowulf and his men because she is afraid of them. wealhtheow has not been impressed by the men who have fought grendel up to this point.

He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. the lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. his throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . there was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. my family consisted of my wife and a young child. our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. we ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. they did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. they consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. who is the story’s first-person narrator