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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Siegmund announce when Siegfried and Kriemhild arrive in the Netherlands?
(a) That Siegfried and Kriemhild will marry.
(b) That Kriemhild has given birth to a boy named Gunther.
(c) That Siegfried is king of the Netherlanders.
(d) That Brunhild has given birth to a boy named Siegfried.

2. Who is Kriemhild's father?
(a) Gunther.
(b) Dancrat.
(c) Siegfried.
(d) Ludegast.

3. What happens to suitors who cannot best Brunhild in three games?
(a) They are drawn and quartered.
(b) They sacrifice all their property.
(c) They are banished.
(d) They lose their heads.

4. Who escorts the Nibelungs from Worms on their return to their own lands after the murder of Siegfried?
(a) Giselher and his men.
(b) Gernot, Giselher, and their men.
(c) Gunther and his men.
(d) No one.

5. Who is guarding the Nibelungers' land when Siegfried arrives?
(a) A dwarf, Albric.
(b) Brunhild.
(c) Hagen.
(d) A giant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the member of her new household who is mourning Etzel's first queen?

2. What does Kriemhild do before Siegfried's body is interred?

3. Why does Hagen not want to go with Siegfried and Kriemhild?

4. Who is determined to woo Kriemhild?

5. What does Brunhild give Gunther and his men after she explains the games?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the tension between Brunhild and Siegfried.

2. What does Siegmund ask Kriemhild to do after Siegfried's funeral, and what does she do instead?

3. Why is Siegfried completely unarmed and without the protection of his own men when drinking from the stream, when the fatal blow to his vulnerable spot is struck by Hagen?

4. How is it possible that Gernot can take Rudiger's life with Rudiger's own sword?

5. Describe Siegfried.

6. What gifts are exchanged upon Folker's engagement to Rudeger's daughter?

7. Was the death of the single Hun, which was caused by Volker's lance, an accident?

8. How does Dancwart make his way to court in Adventure 32?

9. What does Siegfried say he is doing, and what is he really doing, while Gunther and Brunhild are engaging in a contest of strength?

10. How does Hagen get the party across the flood-swollen Danube?

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