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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 immediately after he proposes a toast to the dead using Etzel's wine?
(a) Cut the right hand off of the tutor.
(b) Strike off the head of Kriemhild's son.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Behead Werbel the Minstrel.

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

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

4. How do the Burgundians keep themselves alive?
(a) By eating the flesh of the dead.
(b) By drinking the blood of the dead.
(c) By fighting their way to a well and replenishing themselves.
(d) By capturing the kitchen of the feast hall.

5. Why does Hildebrand allow all of Dietrich's knights to accompany him to find out about the lamenting?
(a) Because he is elderly.
(b) No answer is correct.
(c) Because they want to accompany him.
(d) Because he is likely to be insulted by Etzel's men.

6. What does Dame Uta tell Gunther's men?
(a) To arm themselves as they enter Hungary.
(b) To take prisoners as they enter Hungary.
(c) To burn the crops of the first town they reach.
(d) Not to go to Hungary.

7. What incenses Wolfhart and makes him rush into the fight?
(a) Anger over Hagen's remorselessness.
(b) Grief over Rudeger.
(c) Hagen's success in battle.
(d) Folker's taunts.

8. In Adventure 39, what does Dietrich regret doing to Gunther?
(a) Binding him.
(b) Slaying him.
(c) Taking him to Kriemhild.
(d) Disrespecting him.

9. Who mocks Etzel's might?
(a) Hagen.
(b) Kriemhild.
(c) Dietrich.
(d) Gunther.

10. Who finally kills Rudeger?
(a) Folker.
(b) Gernot.
(c) Gunther.
(d) Hagen.

11. What does Kriemhild ask her warriors to bring her after the battle in the feast hall?
(a) The Burgundians' lands.
(b) Gunther's hands.
(c) The heads of the Burgundians.
(d) Hagen's head.

12. What scene in Adventure 32 repeats a scene from a previous adventure?
(a) The men preparing for a jousting match.
(b) The men jostling each other.
(c) The men dressing for battle.
(d) The men removing themselves from battle.

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

14. The poet warns the reader that the sword Gernot receives from Rudiger is used later for what purpose?
(a) To kill Kriemhild.
(b) To behead a traitor.
(c) To kill Rudiger.
(d) To kill the Margravine.

15. What favor does Folker ask of Rudeger when the Burgundians arrive in Rudeger's stronghold?
(a) He wants to marry Rudeger's daughter.
(b) He wants Rudeger to join forces with them.
(c) He wants safe passage through Rudeger's lands.
(d) He wants Rudeger to give Hagen money and lands.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dietrich tell Hagen's men when they arrive?

2. What does Dankwart tell Hagen when he bursts into the feast hall?

3. Of the well-bred men Rudiger's daughter is expected to kiss in greeting, whom does she balk at kissing?

4. How does Etzel have prior knowledge of Hagen?

5. How does Etzel characterize his wife's feelings for the Burgundian visitors?

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