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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Volker do, sitting at the threshold below the great door of the hall in Adventure 30?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Plays a sweet melody to lull many men to sleep.
(c) Fails to stand as Kriemhild approaches.
(d) Places his fiddle-bow across his lap in protest of Kriemhild's words.

2. What provides the spark that eventually ignites the conflict between Gunther and Etzel's men?
(a) A Burgundian warrior proposes to fight Gunther hand to hand.
(b) A Hun warrior proposes to meet Hagen and Folker alone in the field.
(c) Hagen challenges the champion of the Huns to single combat.
(d) Gunther challenges Kriemhild's champion to single combat.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many dead bodies are removed from the palace at Giselher's suggestion?

2. Which noblemen lead the knights to withdraw from the tournament that takes place after church in Adventure 31?

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

4. What does Hagen tell the warriors once they have crossed the Danube?

5. What makes Dancwart drop his shield in Adventure 31?

(see the answer keys)

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