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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Adventure 19, How the Treasure of the Nibelungers Was Brought to Worms.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these characters is not a brother of Kriemhild?
(a) Siegfried.
(b) Gernot.
(c) Gunther.
(d) Giselher.

2. How do Kriemhild and Siegfried behave when they first meet?
(a) It is obvious to the court that they fall in love at first sight.
(b) They convey their mutual enmity.
(c) They exchange tender looks in secret.
(d) Kriemhild is too shy to look at Siegfried, who is disappointed.

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

4. Why is Brunhild upset by Gunther's engagement of Kriemhild and Siegfried?
(a) She thinks that Siegfried is a lowly messenger.
(b) She resented Kriemhild's beauty.
(c) She wanted Siegfried herself.
(d) She thinks that Siegfried is too good for Kriemhild.

5. In Adventure 4, what does the secret messenger convey to Kriemhild?
(a) A gift of love from Siegfried.
(b) News of how well Siegfried fights the battle against the two kings.
(c) A poem of love from Siegfried.
(d) News of her brother's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Siegfried go to bring rare warriors to Isenstein after the contest between Gunther and Brunhild is over?

2. Who does not join the mourners at the cathedral?

3. What blood relative consoles Kriemhild in Burgundy after the death of Siegfried?

4. Who offers to go with Siegfried to visit Gunther and Brunhild?

5. Who decides that it is time to bring the Nibelung's treasure to Burgundy?

(see the answer key)

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