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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Etzel have prior knowledge of Hagen?
(a) He knows Hagen by reputation.
(b) Hagen was his hostage as a boy.
(c) Hagen's mother is his sister.
(d) He ran away with Hildegund.

2. Who instigates trouble among Hagen's men after the tournament?
(a) Ortwine.
(b) Folker.
(c) Hagen.
(d) Gunther.

3. Why does Dame Uta tell Gunther's messengers what she tells them?
(a) She dreamed that two hawks would kill a falcon.
(b) She dreamed that all the birds in the land died.
(c) She dreamed that the Huns would wage war on them.
(d) She dreamed that there would be a famine.

4. What alerts Kriemhild's knights, who are approaching the sleeping King Gunther and his noble companions?
(a) The sight of Hagen standing guard.
(b) The sight of the Fiddler standing guard.
(c) An other-worldly sentinel.
(d) Flames like fire coming from the hall.

5. How does Hagen taunt Etzel in Adventure 34?
(a) He tells Etzel he is personally plotting against his life.
(b) He refers to his slaying of Ortlieb, his infant son.
(c) He refers to Siegfried having his pleasure of Kriemhild first.
(d) He tells Etzel he will topple his entire empire.

6. What surprises Kriemhild while at court?
(a) Etzel is not paying attention to what Kriemhild says in court.
(b) Hagen is a friend of Dietrich's.
(c) Her brothers told Hagen to sink her treasure.
(d) Her brothers still sides with Hagen.

7. Who is pleased to house Gunther and his group on their way to Hungary?
(a) Else.
(b) Rudiger.
(c) Eckewart.
(d) Gelpfrat.

8. What does Hagen do with the ferry?
(a) He leaves his men in charge of it.
(b) He destroys it after ferrying the party across.
(c) He hides it in the bushes so no one will follow them.
(d) He bribes the ferryman not to bring any other warriors across.

9. How does Volker show his vast strength to the Hunnish people in Adventure 34?
(a) He slaughters more warriors than any man has ever slaughtered in one day.
(b) He hurls a spear over the heads of the Huns from one end of the fortress to the other.
(c) He wields a broad and heavy sword.
(d) He picks up dead bodies over his head.

10. Who ferries the Burgundians across the swollen river?
(a) All answers are incorrect.
(b) The ferryman.
(c) Hagen.
(d) The fairies.

11. What do the Burgundians do after the battle in the feast hall?
(a) Throw the Huns' bodies down the stairs.
(b) Vow vengeance against the Huns.
(c) Lament the deaths of their warriors.
(d) Burn the dead in funeral pyres.

12. Who is the Fiddler, whom Kriemhild's warriors fear?
(a) The minstrel.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Volker.
(d) The man who stands up with Hagen against Kriemhild.

13. What does Hagen lay across his lap when Kriemhild confronts him?
(a) Brunhild's ring.
(b) Siegfried's sword.
(c) Kriemhild's girdle.
(d) Gunther's cloud cloak.

14. How does Hagen justify killing all of Dietrich's men?
(a) He says that he is simply warlike by nature.
(b) He says that he was only protecting his king.
(c) He says that they marched on him in full armor.
(d) He says that the stronger man is always justified.

15. What does Dancwart announce to Hagen at the beginning of Adventure 33?
(a) Our knights and squires have been butchered!
(b) Only my covering is bloody.
(c) You have been sitting here too long.
(d) All answers are correct.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Etzel tell Gunther that none of the Burgundian kings will get away alive?

2. What old wrong does Kriemhild bring up at court in front of everyone?

3. Why does Hagen argue that his men should not pursue the attacking Huns?

4. What scene in Adventure 32 repeats a scene from a previous adventure?

5. At whose hands does Iring die?

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