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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is unwilling to give up the plot to murder Siegfried?
(a) Giselher
(b) Gernot
(c) Gunther.
(d) Hagen.

2. Where does Hagen put Siegfried's body?
(a) In a coffin.
(b) In front of Kriemhild's door.
(c) In bed with Kriemhild.
(d) In front of Siegmund's door.

3. What is the name of the estate in Burgundy?
(a) Xanten.
(b) Worms.
(c) Netherlands.
(d) Rhine.

4. What does Kriemhild give to Siegfried as a reward for his message from Gunther?
(a) A death sentence.
(b) Twenty-four lashes of a whip.
(c) Twenty-four bracelets.
(d) A dozen jewel-encrusted swords.

5. Why is Siegfried's son, Gunther, left at home with Siegfried visited Burgundy?
(a) Siegfried does not trust Brunhild.
(b) He is away at school when Siegfried leaves.
(c) He is conducting other diplomatic business.
(d) He is too young.

6. Who urges Hagen not to travel to Hungary?
(a) Folker.
(b) Werbel.
(c) Swemmeline.
(d) Sir Rumold.

7. What maiden grew up of high lineage and is so fair that none in any land could be fairer?
(a) Kriemhild.
(b) The Queen.
(c) Brunhild.
(d) Uote.

8. What further insult does Hagen reign upon Siegfried's lifeless body after they bring it back to the fortress?
(a) He sets the body down on the threshold of Kriemhild's apartment.
(b) He covers the body in mud and muck.
(c) He curses over the body by moonlight.
(d) He leaves the body with the horses.

9. Why does Siegfried gather an army of a thousand Nibelungers?
(a) To dissuade Brunhild from delaying her marriage to Gunther.
(b) To take them back to Burgundy with him and Gunther.
(c) To lay siege to Brunhild's territories.
(d) To take Brunhild's wealth back to Burgundy safely.

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

11. How many vassals does Kriemhild take with her to the Netherlands?
(a) Eighty-two.
(b) Thirty-two.
(c) Five hundred.
(d) One thousand.

12. What does Hagen do with the Nibelungers' treasure?
(a) Distributes it to the poor.
(b) Manages it for Kriemhild.
(c) Throws it in the Rhine River.
(d) Steals it for himself.

13. Who counsels the messengers who take Kriemhild's message across the Rhine?
(a) Kriemhild.
(b) Rudeger's wife.
(c) Siegmund.
(d) Rudeger.

14. 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 has been lax in his duty to Gunther.
(c) Why he named his son after Gunther.
(d) Why he preferred Kriemhild to her.

15. In what city are Etzel and Kriemhild wed?
(a) Vienna.
(b) Hungary.
(c) Kiev.
(d) Etzenlnburg.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Folker's role in the negotiations between Etzel's messengers and Gunther's men?

2. How does Gunther answer Kriemhild's messengers?

3. Whose position does Kriemhild assume after she and Siegfried have been married for ten years?

4. What is Kriemhild's dream about?

5. What dream does Kriemhild relate to Siegfried before his hunting trip?

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