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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Adventure 28, How Kriemhild Received Hagen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does not join the mourners at the cathedral?
(a) Hagen.
(b) Gunther.
(c) All answers are incorrect.
(d) The people of Burgundy.

2. Who tells Gunther to call off the journey to Hungary?
(a) Giselher.
(b) Hadburg.
(c) Hagen.
(d) Rumold.

3. 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) Tragedy.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Prosperity.

4. Why does Dame Uta tell Gunther's messengers what she tells them?
(a) She dreamed that two hawks would kill a falcon.
(b) She dreamed that the Huns would wage war on them.
(c) She dreamed that all the birds in the land died.
(d) She dreamed that there would be a famine.

5. Whom does Rudeger's daughter balk at kissing?
(a) Giselher.
(b) Gernot.
(c) Folker.
(d) Hagen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to suitors who cannot best Brunhild in three games?

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

3. Which brothers accompany Kriemhild on her journey to meet her new husband, Etzel?

4. What does Kriemhild dream?

5. After the murder of Siegfried, what does Siegmund want Kriemhild to do?

(see the answer key)

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