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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Vainamoinen and Ilmarinen go to look for the flame the Creator sends?
(a) In the heavens.
(b) In the ocean.
(c) In the forest.
(d) At the bottom of a vast lake.

2. What does the Maid of Pohja learn about how her married life will be different?
(a) They tell her that she is in charge of her mother's household now in addition to her husband's.
(b) They tell her that she is safer now that she is a woman and can answer her husband's authority with her own.
(c) They tell her that she must bear children within the first year in order to have a happy marriage.
(d) She is told that she will never feel as safe in her husband's home as she was in her family's.

3. What comes out of the giant fish's belly?
(a) Fire.
(b) Mountains.
(c) The moon.
(d) Smaller fish.

4. What does Lemminkainen find in his food at the wedding feast?
(a) Pins.
(b) Worms.
(c) Stuffing.
(d) Cream filling.

5. How does Kullervo speak about his family when his mother asks him not to leave?
(a) Contemptuously.
(b) Respectfully.
(c) Affectionately.
(d) Dismissively.

6. How do Ilmarinen, Lemminkainen, and Vainamoinen get the Sampo from Louhi?
(a) They win it from her while playing dice.
(b) They kill her and her soldiers.
(c) They trick her into giving it to them.
(d) They lull her to sleep.

7. Who alerts Louhi to the theft of the Sampo?
(a) A heron.
(b) A storm.
(c) A crow.
(d) A pike.

8. What does Louhi send to attack Vainamoinen after the plagues?
(a) A flock of crows.
(b) A swarm of bees.
(c) A bear.
(d) A giant dog.

9. What does Lemminkainen say when he arrives at the wedding feast?
(a) He curses the bride and groom.
(b) He threatens the Maid of Pohja.
(c) He demands to be greeted and fed properly.
(d) He challenges Vainamoinen to a fight.

10. How does Kullervo get revenge against the Daughter of Louhi?
(a) He poisons her.
(b) He convinces Ilmarinen to disavow her.
(c) He leads an army against her palace and besieges her.
(d) He contrives to have her devoured by beasts of his own devising.

11. Who kills the pike when Ilmarinen, Lemminkainen, and Vainamoinen run aground on the pike's back?
(a) Vainamoinen.
(b) Louhi.
(c) Lemminkainen.
(d) Ilmarinen.

12. What happens to Lemminkainen and his friend on their way to get revenge against Pohja?
(a) They lose their way after Frost freezes their boat in the water.
(b) They meet with mermaids who prophecy their fate.
(c) They kill the ferryman who could have taken them into Pohja.
(d) They are drowned on their way to Pohja.

13. Who tells the Maid of Pohja about how her life will be different once she is married?
(a) Vainamoinen.
(b) Old women of the household.
(c) Louhi.
(d) Ilmarinen.

14. Who is explicitly not invited to the wedding of Vainamoinen and the Maid of Pohja?
(a) Annikki.
(b) Louhi.
(c) Lemminkainen.
(d) Ilmarinen.

15. What does Louhi tell Ilmarinen when he returns to Pohja?
(a) She says that she will not give him another daughter.
(b) She tells him that his craftsmanship is superb.
(c) She upbraids him for the death of her daughter.
(d) She says that he is welcome with his new bride.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ilmarinen make to help him achieve the task he wants Vainamoinen to help him with?

2. Where does Lemminkainen hide after the wedding feast?

3. What does Kullervo's mother tell him after she hears about the woman he seduced?

4. What does Vainamoinen do when he sees that Louhi has freed her prisoners?

5. What does the Old Man by the Fire say about stories of children?

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