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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Vainamoinen tell the living creatures after he returns from the Underworld?
(a) He tells them not to go there themselves.
(b) He tells them all about the Daughter of the Underworld.
(c) He describes the horrors he saw.
(d) He tells them the magic words he learned there.

3. What occasion marks the end of Lemminkainen and Kyllikki's happiness?
(a) Kyllikki betrays Lemminkainen with Vainamoinen.
(b) Kyllikki goes dancing and Lemmenkainen confronts her.
(c) Kyllikki tells Lemmenkainen's enemies the secret of his vulnerability.
(d) Lemmenkainen abandons Kyllikki on an island.

4. 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.

5. Who helps Vainamoinen complete the tasks so that he can marry?
(a) Annikki.
(b) Ilmarinen.
(c) The Maid of Pohja.
(d) Louhi.

6. What does Joukahainen shoot at Vainamoinen with?
(a) A rifle.
(b) A crossbow with poisoned arrows.
(c) A pistol.
(d) A cannon.

7. Who comes after the Water-Mother prays for relief?
(a) The Maid of Pohja.
(b) Louhi.
(c) Vainamoinen.
(d) A small bird.

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

9. What do the gods decide to do when they hear Lemmenkainen bragging?
(a) They discourage him in the shape of his mother.
(b) They turn him into a goose.
(c) They send him on a wild chase after an elk.
(d) They make him fall into a deep sleep.

10. Where does the eagle take Vainamoinen when it rescues him?
(a) To the ocean.
(b) To his mother.
(c) To the land of Pohja.
(d) To the mountains.

11. How does Vainamoinen escape from the Underworld?
(a) He wrestles with the three-headed dog that guards the entrance to the Underworld.
(b) He offers to marry the Daughter of the Underworld.
(c) He transforms himself into a small snake-like animal.
(d) He defeats Vipunen in single combat.

12. What does Lemmenkainen's mother ask of Ilmarinen?
(a) She asks him to build her a Sampo.
(b) She asks him for a potion that will heal Lemmenkainen.
(c) She asks him to make a rake for her.
(d) She asks him to knit Lemmenkainen back together.

13. What name is the Water-Mother given?
(a) Louhi.
(b) Ilmatar.
(c) The Maid of Pohja.
(d) Earth Mother.

14. What does Vainamoinen resolve to build at the beginning of Part 16?
(a) A tampo.
(b) A boat.
(c) A tree.
(d) A cave.

15. Why does Vipunen ultimately tell Vainamoinen what he wants to know?
(a) Vainamoinen makes increasingly violent threats to Vipunen.
(b) Vainamoinen promises to torture Vipunen.
(c) Vainamoinen says that he feels perfectly at home and will not leave.
(d) Vainamoinen says that he has the help of the Daughter of the Underworld.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens when the eagle drops Vainamoinen?

3. What is Vainamoinen missing as he works with the wood Sampsa brought him?

4. Whose help does Vipunen ask for, to help him get rid of Vainamoinen?

5. What was the Water-Mother's name before she became the Water-Mother?

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