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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who helps Lemmenkainen capture the elk after his snowshoes break?
(a) The god of the dark cave.
(b) The gods of the mountains.
(c) The gods of the forest.
(d) Louhi's daughter's governess.

2. What story does Aino's mother tell her when Aino is upset about marrying?
(a) She tells Aino about how Aino's father won her hand by betraying his family.
(b) She describes Joukahainen's gambling debts.
(c) She tells Aino about the jewels hidden in the cave.
(d) She tells Aino about her brother's treacherous history.

3. What is happening when the Water-Mother experiences an upsurge of energy?
(a) Monsters are swallowing the sun.
(b) The Maid of Pohja is singing to her.
(c) Lemminkainen is being born.
(d) The small bird's eggs are hatching on her knee.

4. What happens when Lemmenkainen catches the elk?
(a) He leads it back to Louhi.
(b) It escapes.
(c) It attacks a village.
(d) He kills it.

5. What does the water mother's baby do when he is born?
(a) Looks for a place to build a castle.
(b) Looks for someone to sow seeds in the land.
(c) Conquers his father's henchmen.
(d) Looks for his father.

6. What does Vainamoinen ask Aino to do for him when they are walking through the forest together?
(a) Take off her jewelry.
(b) Wear her jewelry.
(c) Renounce her father.
(d) Betray her brother.

7. What does Louhi do when she finds Vainamoinen?
(a) She convinces her son to kill him.
(b) She protects him from her son.
(c) She offers him her daughter's hand.
(d) She takes him to her home and bathes him.

8. Where does Vainamoinen want to send his friend Sampsa at the beginning of part 16?
(a) To Louhi's house with a message.
(b) To Lemmenkainen with a challenge.
(c) On a journey of discovery.
(d) On a quest in search of wood.

9. What does Vainamoinen catch?
(a) He catches Aino, who tells him a new technique for catching fish.
(b) He catches a salmon that was in fact Aino.
(c) He catches a fish that tells him how to catch Aino.
(d) He catches a number of fish, but none of them is Aino.

10. To whom does the little maid recount what she hears from Vainamoinen?
(a) Aino.
(b) Louhi.
(c) Joukahainen.
(d) Aino's mother.

11. How does Jourkahainen feel toward Vainamoinen in part 6 of the Kalevala?
(a) He wants to repay Vainamoinen for the indignities he suffered.
(b) He is anxious to make an alliance with Vainamoinen.
(c) He is jealousy and resentful.
(d) He is full of admiration.

12. Who is the Maid of Pohja?
(a) Aino.
(b) Joukahainen's youngest sister.
(c) Louhi's daughter.
(d) Vainamoinen's cousin.

13. What was the Water-Mother's name before she became the Water-Mother?
(a) Daughter of the Air.
(b) Ilmarinen.
(c) Louhi.
(d) The Maid of Pohja.

14. What condition does Louhi impose on Lemmenkainen before she can give him what he wants?
(a) He has to go out on snowshoes and capture a mighty elk.
(b) He has to walk across the ocean.
(c) He has to defeat the gods in a hunting contest.
(d) He has to defeat Markahattu in a storytelling contest.

15. What sound does Vainamoinen find sad after he goes fishing?
(a) The nightingale's song.
(b) The hummingbird's wings.
(c) The cuckoo's song.
(d) The crow's call.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who cuts down the tree Vainamoinen plants?

2. What does Louhi ask from Vainamoinen in return for her help?

3. What does the Daughter of the Underworld tell Vainamoinen?

4. What does Joukahainen do when he meets Vainamoinen?

5. What does Lemmenkainen do when his happiness with Kyllikki ends?

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