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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What social rank does Liudegast hold?
2. Who greets Kriemhild at Rudeger's stronghold?
3. While they are arguing, what evidence does Brunhild provide to Kriemhild that she thinks supports the idea that Siegfried is the vassal of Gunther?
4. Where does Kriemhild spend most of her time after Siegfried's death?
5. Who counsels Kriemhild to speak to Gunther?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Siegmund ask Kriemhild to do after Siegfried's funeral, and what does she do instead?
2. What happens when Gunther offers gold to Swemmeline and Werbel?
3. Why does Hagen promise to injure Siegfried?
4. Why does Hagen suggest that his warriors drink the blood of corpses?
5. Gunther falls in love with a queen across the sea who has an unusual gift and plan to find a husband. Who is this queen and what are her unusual gifts and ideas?
6. What is the secret of Siegfried's strength?
7. Hagen lies when telling Etzel why his knights wear armor to church. Why doesn't Kriemhild expose his lie to Etzel?
8. What is Rudeger's involvement in the battle?
9. In what ways does Gunther show respect to Siegfried and Kriemhild as benefits their rank when they come to visit in Burgundy?
10. Explain how it comes to pass that Siegfried cannot be wounded, except in one small spot.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a three-part essay that analyzes Kriemhild's culpability for her husband's murder. Pick three events or situations from the poem that you think give Kriemhild culpability for the murder of her husband and explain your point of view. Then take the opposite point of view of those events or situations and explain why Kriemhild can also be considered blameless, or nearly blameless. In the final section, provide your opinion about the most reasonable assessment of Kriemhild's culpability. Provide examples from the poem to support your arguments.
Essay Topic 2
Are there men's and women's ways of doing things in the Nibelungenlied, or is the distinction really to be made between the strong people's ways and the less strong people's ways? Does Kriemhild have such a difficult time exacting revenge because she is female, or because she is weaker than Hagen?
Essay Topic 3
Do all of the lives lost while avenging Siegfried's death testify to Siegfried's greatness, or do they make him smaller, as just one of the many dead? Is Siegfried still superior to the others, or was he just an earlier figure, from a time when magic was still available to help men?
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