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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hildebrand request from the Burgundians?
(a) Rudiger's body.
(b) Water.
(c) Rudiger's sword.
(d) A fair fight.

2. What does the party discover in the morning after traveling all night?
(a) The treasure of the Nibelungs.
(b) Dankwart and Hagen's bloody weapons.
(c) Hagen's treasonous murder of Siegfried.
(d) The body of the slain ferryman.

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

4. What do Etzel's men do as they retire from the feast?
(a) Threaten to kill Hagen.
(b) Menace Hagen.
(c) Sing of the coming battle.
(d) Jostle Gunther's men.

5. With what news does Dietrich greet the Burgundian kings as they arrive in Hungary?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Kriemhild is a designing woman.
(c) Be on your guard.
(d) Kriemhild still weeps for Siegfried.

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

7. What reason does Giselher give for not turning over Hagen to Kriemhild?
(a) It would be dishonorable.
(b) Hagen is no more guilty than I am.
(c) Hagen is innocent.
(d) Giselher has never broken faith with a friend.

8. What does Kriemhild tell the warriors she gathers to wait for?
(a) Hagen's boast that he is a better man than Siegfried.
(b) Hagen revealing his sins.
(c) Her signal to kill Hagen.
(d) Her offer to forgive Hagen.

9. What do the people at the Danube tell Hagen?
(a) That Gunther's men will find riches along the way.
(b) That all the men will marry new wives in Hungary.
(c) That Gunther's men will conquer Hungary.
(d) That all who march to Hungary shall fall.

10. How does Hagen tell his men to outfit themselves the morning after the feast in Etzel's stronghold?
(a) As if for battle.
(b) As if for work in the fields.
(c) As if for travel.
(d) In their finest raiment.

11. What does Kriemhild ask Hagen when she first sees him at court?
(a) How can you face me?
(b) When will you leave?
(c) Why do you come?
(d) What do you bring me?

12. How long do Gunther and his men stay with Rudeger?
(a) Four days.
(b) Two months.
(c) Seven days.
(d) Two weeks.

13. One Hun offers to fight Hagen in single combat. What happens when the fight begins?
(a) The Hun kills Hagen.
(b) The Hun is killed by Folker's arrows.
(c) The Hun cannot defeat Hagen, so he fights Gunther and Gernot in turn.
(d) The Hun is stunned then killed by Hagen.

14. What does Kriemhild ask Hagen when she greets him?
(a) How long he plans to stay.
(b) Whether he is sorry for killing Siegfried.
(c) Whether he will marry Etzel's daughter.
(d) Where the Nibelungers' gold is.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Gunther, his brothers, and the other nobles sleep after the Midsummer's Eve festivities?

2. Who instigates trouble among Hagen's men after the tournament?

3. What does Volker pledge to Hagen after Hagen and Kriemhild have their first confrontation in Hungary?

4. Helpfrish is dispatched by Dietrich to ask what is the cause of the lamenting. He is charged to ask whom for an explanation?

5. How does Kriemhild plan to start a confrontation on the Burgundians' first morning in Hungary?

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