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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Adventure 17, How Siegfried Was Bewailed and Burned.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kriemhild do before Siegfried's body is interred?
(a) Challenges Brunhild to a contest.
(b) Insults Gunther.
(c) Accuses Hagen of murder.
(d) Kisses his face.

2. Who is guarding the Nibelungers' land when Siegfried arrives?
(a) Brunhild.
(b) A giant.
(c) A dwarf, Albric.
(d) Hagen.

3. What does Brunhild and her ladies observe Siegfried do for Gunther that is designed to make Gunther look more kingly?
(a) Hand him a sword.
(b) Hold a stirrup.
(c) Hand him a lance.
(d) Place a crown on his head.

4. What oath has Kriemhild taken?
(a) Not to rest until she has avenged the death of her father.
(b) Not to marry a foreigner.
(c) Never to marry.
(d) Never to speak.

5. Which answer describes Gunther's wedding night?
(a) Brunhild refuses to see Gunther after the wedding.
(b) Brunhild surrenders herself and her lands to him.
(c) Brunhild ties him up and hangs him from a peg.
(d) Brunhild escapes from Burgundy before the wedding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will happen if Gunther cannot best Brunhild?

2. Why is Brunhild upset by Gunther's engagement of Kriemhild and Siegfried?

3. Oddly enough, who is sent as a messenger to Uote and Kriemhild at Burgundy after the contest between Gunther and Brunhild?

4. What does Kriemhild think about as soon as she sees Siegfried's dead body?

5. Which kings unite to march against King Gunther's lands?

(see the answer key)

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