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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Huns do at the end of the Midsummer's Eve festivities that is offensive to Volker?
(a) Jostle the nobles.
(b) Thwack Volker with his fiddle-bow.
(c) Threaten Giselher.
(d) Bow to Kriemhild.

2. How many of Iring's men stand behind him before he does single-handed battle with Hagen?
(a) One thousand or more.
(b) Two thousand or more.
(c) Five hundred or more.
(d) One hundred or more.

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

4. What does Gunther do when the battle begins in the feast hall?
(a) He kills Dietrich.
(b) He battles with Bloedelin and is nearly killed.
(c) He talks with Etzel.
(d) He tries in vain to stop the fighting.

5. What does Iring ask of the Huns?
(a) That he should fight Hagen instead of Dietrich.
(b) That they should help him distribute Hagen's lands.
(c) That they let him fight Hagen alone.
(d) That they should elect him leader in place of Etzel.

6. Who agrees to fight Hagen alone?
(a) Iring.
(b) Etzel.
(c) Bloedelin.
(d) Kriemhild.

7. 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) Hagen's head.
(d) The heads of the Burgundians.

8. At what location does Hagen taunt Kriemhild with the sword of her slain husband?
(a) Etzel's court.
(b) Kriemhild's palace.
(c) The vast field where Etzel's tournaments are held.
(d) Rudiger's home.

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

10. Of the well-bred men Rudiger's daughter is expected to kiss in greeting, whom does she balk at kissing?
(a) Giselher.
(b) Volker.
(c) Hagen.
(d) Danewart.

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

12. What happens when a Hun is killed in the tournament?
(a) Etzel proclaims it an accident and says the death will not be avenged.
(b) A bloody battle begins.
(c) One of Kriemhild's men stabs Hagen.
(d) Kriemhild convinces her husband to banish the visitors.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Volker do, sitting at the threshold below the great door of the hall in Adventure 30?

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

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

4. What is Dietrich trying to accomplish by going to see Gunther and Hagen after he discovers that his men are slain?

5. How many warriors does Kriemhild gather in order to kill Hagen?

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