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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kriemhild asks which king to help her escape the bloodbath?
(a) Gunther.
(b) Dietrich.
(c) Etzel.
(d) Giselher.

2. Helpfrish is dispatched by Dietrich to ask what is the cause of the lamenting. He is charged to ask whom for an explanation?
(a) The Burgundians only.
(b) Etzel's men only.
(c) The Burgundians or Etzel's men.
(d) Rudiger's men only.

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

4. How many warriors die in the second round of fighting?
(a) Fifty.
(b) A thousand.
(c) Twelve hundred.
(d) Five hundred.

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

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

7. Who is considered to have the greatest power under Etzel?
(a) Dietrich.
(b) Ortlieb.
(c) Rudiger.
(d) Bloedelin.

8. What do the Burgundian leaders propose to do after the battle in the feast hall?
(a) Seek leniency from Etzel.
(b) Nominate Dankwart for king.
(c) Retreat home.
(d) Clear the hall of the dead.

9. Whom does Hagen say the party must be wary of, after he tells his warriors what he knows?
(a) Gelfrat and Elsy.
(b) Brunhild and Gunther.
(c) Folker.
(d) Gernot and Giselher.

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

11. Whom does Hagen encounter at the Danube?
(a) Peaceful farmers.
(b) A waiting army.
(c) Sirens.
(d) Bathing women.

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

13. What does Dietrich tell Hagen's men when they arrive?
(a) That Kriemhild plans to kill them.
(b) That they should leave immediately.
(c) That they are welcome in Etzel's palace.
(d) That Kriemhild still mourns Siegfried.

14. Who announces in front of the company at the Margrave's home that he would wish to have the Margrave's daughter as a wife?
(a) Giselher.
(b) Hagen.
(c) Volker.
(d) Danewart.

15. What do the Burgundian kings attempt to do while Volker and Hagen are killing Hunnish warriors?
(a) Use their swords to defend themselves.
(b) Make an arrangement to stop the bloodshed.
(c) Use their swords to stop Volker and Hagen.
(d) Protect Kriemhild as they hurry her out of the hall.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Burgundians keep themselves alive?

2. Who first notices the armed men at the front of the hall in which Gunther is sleeping after the Midsummer Eve's festivities?

3. Why is Kriemhild crying at the beginning of Adventure 29?

4. How many of Iring's men stand behind him before he does single-handed battle with Hagen?

5. What does Dietrich think when he hears the crying over Rudeger's death?

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