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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 Dame Uta give to the messenger who brings news of Gunther's safe return?
(a) A gift of serving women.
(b) Twenty-four gold bracelets.
(c) A wedding feast.
(d) Large swaths of territory.

2. What does Kriemhild tell the minister when she is reviling Kriemhild?
(a) That Gunther will punish Brunhild.
(b) That Brunhild yielded to Siegfried.
(c) That Brunhild is only a serving girl.
(d) That Brunhild gave her ring to Siegfried.

3. 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 named his son after Gunther.
(c) How Kriemhild has treated him as a wife.
(d) Why he preferred Kriemhild to her.

4. Why does Siegfried go to bring rare warriors to Isenstein after the contest between Gunther and Brunhild is over?
(a) To show Brunhild that he is really a king.
(b) To pay for losing the contest to Brunhild.
(c) To show Brunhild that his warriors are stronger than hers.
(d) To protect Gunther and the rest in case Brunhild means them harm.

5. Who pledges to harm Siegfried or die in the attempt?
(a) Hagen.
(b) Ortwine.
(c) Gunther.
(d) Brunhild.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many warriors go with Siegfried to win the hand of the fair maiden?

2. After the queens start to argue about their husbands' rank, why do the people wonder when they see the queens at the cathedral?

3. What person does Kriemhild notify first after discovering Siegfried's murder?

4. What further insult does Hagen reign upon Siegfried's lifeless body after they bring it back to the fortress?

5. What causes blood to spill anew from Siegfried's corpse while it lies in the cathedral?

(see the answer key)

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