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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 does Brunhild want to know when she confronts Siegfried during his visit to Burgundy?
(a) How Kriemhild has treated him as a wife.
(b) Why he named his son after Gunther.
(c) Why he has been lax in his duty to Gunther.
(d) Why he preferred Kriemhild to her.

2. What person does Kriemhild notify first after discovering Siegfried's murder?
(a) Brunhild.
(b) Uote.
(c) Gunther.
(d) Siegmund.

3. What does Hagen tell the warriors once they have crossed the Danube?
(a) He tells them that riches await them.
(b) He tells them that they need to travel fast and light.
(c) He tells them that they will conquer Hungary.
(d) He tells them the mermaids' prophecy that they will all die.

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

5. What does Brunhild give Gunther and his men after she explains the games?
(a) An army of a thousand champions.
(b) Her weapons.
(c) Time to consider the consequences.
(d) A cloud cloak.

Short Answer Questions

1. What favor does Kriemhild ask of Etzel?

2. Who escapes from Hagen and the other men that engage the ferryman's overlord?

3. Who waits upon Kriemhild as she mourns?

4. How does Siegfried subdue Brunhild?

5. How many warriors go with Siegfried to win the hand of the fair maiden?

(see the answer key)

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