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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Adventure 35, How Iring Was Slain.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kriemhild decide to do after Siegmund asks her to return with him?
(a) Return to Burgundy.
(b) Rule over Siegfried's lands.
(c) Devote herself to avenging Siegfried's death.
(d) Give Siegfried's lands and property away.

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

3. Who first notices the armed men at the front of the hall in which Gunther is sleeping after the Midsummer Eve's festivities?
(a) Gunther.
(b) Hagen.
(c) Volker.
(d) Giselher.

4. How many Burgundian squires die as the Hunnish warriors try to kill Dancwart?
(a) Five hundred.
(b) Five thousand.
(c) One thousand.
(d) Nine thousand.

5. Where does Gernot ask to be allowed to fight?
(a) In the forest.
(b) On the beach.
(c) On the open plain.
(d) In the feast hall.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Hagen displease by murdering the ferryman?

2. What alerts Kriemhild's knights, who are approaching the sleeping King Gunther and his noble companions?

3. What do the people at the Danube tell Hagen?

4. Whose blood does Dankwart say stains his clothes when he bursts into the feast hall?

5. Why does Siegfried gather an army of a thousand Nibelungers?

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