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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Adventures 21 and 22, How Kriemhild Departed and How the Huns Received Kriemhild.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of the chapter in which Kriemhild and Siegfried meet, what does the poet say the love of a beautiful woman leads to?
(a) Good fortune.
(b) Prosperity.
(c) Tragedy.
(d) Wisdom.

2. What occasion causes Etzel to seek Kriemhild's hand in marriage?
(a) Etzel's wife died.
(b) Etzel had just been made king.
(c) Etzel came of age.
(d) Etzel wanted to take a second wife.

3. Whom does Siegfried appoint as commander of the rearguard when he fights Gunther's invaders?
(a) Dankwart.
(b) Hagen.
(c) Ludeger.
(d) Gunther.

4. With what men does Siegfried plan to defeat Liudegast and Luidegar?
(a) The Danes.
(b) The Burgundians.
(c) The Saxons.
(d) The Netherlanders.

5. What words spoken by Kriemhild pain Siegmund while he is convincing her to return to Siegfried's lands?
(a) My family is loyal to me.
(b) None of my kin lives in Nibelungland.
(c) The blood-feud only involves Siegfried, not his wife.
(d) I command my son to the kind protection of the knights.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Kriemhild discuss her dream?

2. Who convinces Kriemhild to do what she does in response to Siegmund's request?

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

4. When Siegfried tells Kriemhild that it is time to go back to the Netherlands, what does she want to do before they leave?

5. On whom do Liudegast and Luidegar supposedly declare war?

(see the answer key)

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