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

2. How many men does Kriemhild take with her to Burgundy?
(a) Five hundred.
(b) Fifty.
(c) A thousand.
(d) Four.

3. What does Kriemhild ask Hagen when she first sees him at court?
(a) What do you bring me?
(b) When will you leave?
(c) How can you face me?
(d) Why do you come?

4. Why does the ferryman refuse to take Hagen across the river?
(a) He does not ferry strangers.
(b) He considers Hagen an imposter.
(c) He considers himself above ferrying commoners.
(d) Hagen refuses to pay him.

5. What messengers go to Burgundy to invite Gunther and his men to visit Kriemhild in Hungary?
(a) Two diplomats.
(b) Two minstrels with fiddles.
(c) Four of the greatest Hungarian warriors.
(d) Four men with swift horses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dietrich tell Hagen's men when they arrive?

2. What is unusual about Queen Brunhild?

3. Who, besides Uote, believes that the warriors should not journey to Hungary for the festival?

4. How many warriors does Kriemhild gather in order to kill Hagen?

5. During the discussion, who taunts Hagen about whether to travel to Hungary to see Etzel and Kriemhild?

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