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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Adventure 31, How the Knights Went to Church.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kriemhild dream?
(a) Two crows attacked four eagles.
(b) Three crows ate a dead dog.
(c) Two eagles attacked a falcon.
(d) Four eagles attacked a soldier.

2. 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) The blood-feud only involves Siegfried, not his wife.
(c) I command my son to the kind protection of the knights.
(d) None of my kin lives in Nibelungland.

3. What do Hagen and Gunther propose to hunt for with Siegfried?
(a) Wild boar and wolves.
(b) Buried treasure.
(c) Bear, boar, and wild bull.
(d) Geese and cranes.

4. How many days of festivities occur before Brunhild and Kriemhild begin quarreling?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Six.
(d) Eleven.

5. Which noblemen lead the knights to withdraw from the tournament that takes place after church in Adventure 31?
(a) Irnfrit and Hawart.
(b) Volker and Hagen.
(c) Etzel and Gunther.
(d) Dietrich and Rudiger.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Kriemhild is unable to take the remainder of Siegfried's treasure to her new home, what does Rudiger tell her?

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

3. Why do Kriemhild's men retreat from their attack on Gunther's men?

4. Who counsels Kriemhild to speak to Gunther?

5. What causes the increasing tension between the Huns and the Burgundians?

(see the answer key)

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