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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. After the queens start to argue about their husbands' rank, why do the people wonder when they see the queens at the cathedral?
(a) The queens arrive separately.
(b) The queens do not greet each other when they arrive simultaneously at the cathedral.
(c) Brunhild arrives with Siegfried while Kriemhild stands alone.
(d) The queens are arrayed in splendor, such as has never before been seen.

2. What is the literary device that describes Kriemhild's dream?
(a) Prophecy.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Characterization.
(d) Personification.

3. What secret does Hagen elicit from Kriemhild?
(a) Siegfried's vulnerability.
(b) Brunhild's power.
(c) Siegfried's cloud-cloak.
(d) Gunther's weakness.

4. What is Kriemhild's dream about?
(a) The fate of an eagle.
(b) The fate of a mare.
(c) The fate of a falcon.
(d) The fate of a stallion.

5. How many princes of lofty rank rode before Etzel to meet Kriemhild on her way to wed him?
(a) Twenty-four.
(b) Fifty.
(c) One hundred.
(d) Twenty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is unusual about Queen Brunhild?

2. How many vassals does Kriemhild take with her to the Netherlands?

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

4. Where does Kriemhild live as a widow in Burgundy?

5. What does Siegmund ask Kriemhild to do after Siegfried's funeral?

(see the answer key)

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