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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Adventure 26, How Dankwart Slew Gelfrat.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Siegfried gather an army of a thousand Nibelungers?
(a) To lay siege to Brunhild's territories.
(b) To take them back to Burgundy with him and Gunther.
(c) To dissuade Brunhild from delaying her marriage to Gunther.
(d) To take Brunhild's wealth back to Burgundy safely.

2. What does Siegmund say to Gunther upon his visit to Worms to visit Gunther and Brunhild?
(a) Your wife is attired magnificently, as according to her station.
(b) Ever since my son gained your friendship I have wanted to meet you.
(c) I thank you for receiving me with the same honors as befit my son.
(d) I am very glad I came!

3. What favor does Kriemhild ask of Etzel?
(a) She wants to return home to Burgundy.
(b) She wants him to ally himself with Gunther.
(c) She wants to see her friends from Gunther's lands.
(d) She wants him to raise their son as a heathen.

4. What does Brunhild want to know when she confronts Siegfried during his visit to Burgundy?
(a) Why he has been lax in his duty to Gunther.
(b) Why he preferred Kriemhild to her.
(c) Why he named his son after Gunther.
(d) How Kriemhild has treated him as a wife.

5. Who leads King Gunther's group through the country on the other side of the Danube?
(a) Volker.
(b) Hagen.
(c) The minstrels.
(d) Gelpfrat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Kriemhild accuse Brunhild during their argument about their husbands?

2. Whom does Gunther point to when Siegfried tells him to choose his wife from the women who watch them arrive in Brunhild's lands?

3. What words spoken by Kriemhild pain Siegmund while he is convincing her to return to Siegfried's lands?

4. Who counsels the messengers who take Kriemhild's message across the Rhine?

5. Who teaches Kriemhild the ways of Etzel's land?

(see the answer key)

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