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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hagen do to upset Kriemhild in front of the four hundred warriors she intends to use to attack Hagen and Volker?
(a) He turns his back to her while she is speaking.
(b) He throws gold coins at her feet.
(c) He refuses to look at her while she is addressing him.
(d) He places the sword of her slain husband on his lap.

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

3. What is the reward offered by Kriemhild for Hagen's head?
(a) Many fine castles.
(b) Many fine lands.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) A pile of red gold.

4. What does Gelfrat want from Hagen's men?
(a) He wants them to pass a message to Etzel.
(b) He wants justice for the slain ferryman.
(c) He wants them to pass a message to Gunther.
(d) He wants to escort them safely through his lands.

5. What does Giselher suggest needs to be done with the bodies of the dead in the palace, once the fighting temporarily ceases?
(a) Carry the dead from the palace.
(b) Bury the dead bodies.
(c) Burn the dead bodies.
(d) Throw the dead bodies into the moat.

6. What does Rudiger expect to be the outcome if he enters the battle?
(a) Rudiger expects all his men to die.
(b) Rudiger expects Etzel to find a noble husband for his daughter.
(c) Rudiger expects to die.
(d) Rudiger expects Kriemhild to extend mercy to her brothers.

7. Who leads King Gunther's group through the country on the other side of the Danube?
(a) The minstrels.
(b) Volker.
(c) Gelpfrat.
(d) Hagen.

8. What happens to the man who issues the challenge to single combat?
(a) He wins his first encounter.
(b) He kills Hagen.
(c) He is promptly slain.
(d) He is restrained by Etzel.

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

10. What makes Dancwart drop his shield in Adventure 31?
(a) His shield arm is wounded.
(b) The weight of spears that pierce his shield.
(c) A blow to his shield by Bloedelin.
(d) He is attacked from behind by many men.

11. What does Kriemhild do when Dietrich brings Hagen as a captive?
(a) She does not kill him; she keeps him captive.
(b) She executes him on the spot.
(c) She offers to sell him back to Gunther for a steep price.
(d) She has him tortured, as she was tortured in her grief.

12. Who escapes from Hagen and the other men that engage the ferryman's overlord?
(a) Else.
(b) Gelpfrat.
(c) Volker.
(d) Troneck.

13. How do Hagen's men outfit themselves when they wake after the feast in Etzel's stronghold?
(a) As if for travel.
(b) In their finest raiment.
(c) As if for work in the fields.
(d) As if for battle.

14. Which Burgundians is Iring unable to defeat?
(a) Volker, Gunther, and Gernot.
(b) Hagen, Volker, Gunther, and Gernot.
(c) Gunther and Gernot.
(d) Hagen and Volker.

15. Who conveys the information that Rudeger has been killed?
(a) Hildebrand.
(b) Iring.
(c) Helfrich.
(d) Kriemhild.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gunther do when the battle begins in the feast hall?

2. Under what condition does Dietrich offer to end the battle?

3. Why does Kriemhild advise Hunnish warriors not to allow the three kings to leave the hall?

4. What does Giselher believe when he sees Rudiger?

5. What relation is Rudiger to Giselher?

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