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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many funeral pyres are made?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

2. Who had been taking care of the girl?
(a) Thrym.
(b) Vilmund.
(c) Volgrmund.
(d) Geirrod.

3. What is the name of the forest promised to Gunnar and Hogni?
(a) Wolfwood.
(b) Mirkwood.
(c) Miragnac.
(d) Asgard.

4. What was the name of the wrinkled baby?
(a) Thrall.
(b) Kin.
(c) Slave-girl.
(d) Baby.

5. Ottar and which other character have wagered foreign gold?
(a) Svanhild.
(b) Freyr.
(c) Angantyr.
(d) Hyndla.

6. What is the name of the messenger sent to Gunnar's hall?
(a) Linfjord.
(b) Kermit.
(c) Herkia.
(d) Knefrod.

7. Odin tells the woman that she is the mother to three what?
(a) Ogres.
(b) Goblins.
(c) Trolls.
(d) Dwarves.

8. How was Svanhild killed?
(a) Hanged in the gallows.
(b) Drowned.
(c) Trampled by horses.
(d) Drawn and quartered.

9. What item could prove Gudrun's innocence?
(a) Stones.
(b) Branch from Yggdrasill.
(c) Runes.
(d) Valkyrie.

10. Hyndla belongs to what people?
(a) ZHsir.
(b) Gods.
(c) Giants.
(d) Niflungs.

11. What item is the maid asked to bring?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Cauldron.
(c) Broom.
(d) Ale.

12. What is the name of Hogni's wife?
(a) Gudrun.
(b) Glaumvor.
(c) Herkia.
(d) Kostbera.

13. In which direction does the sign of impending war appear?
(a) North.
(b) East.
(c) South.
(d) West.

14. What might Hogni receive as a reward for betraying Sigurd?
(a) Fafnir's heart.
(b) Gudrun.
(c) Byrhild.
(d) Gold.

15. What did Gudrun do for entertainment during her stay?
(a) Spin.
(b) Embroidery.
(c) Archery.
(d) Read.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Gunnar thrown?

2. Which is not one of Gudrun's sons?

3. What happens to the giantess at the end of the poem?

4. How many days does the battle last with Atli?

5. Which is not amongst the slave girls' relatives?

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