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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the chips from Vainamoinen's tree turned into?
(a) People.
(b) Arrows.
(c) Baskets.
(d) Beavers.

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

3. What does Joukahainen do when he meets Vainamoinen?
(a) He challenges Vainamoinen to a javelin contest.
(b) He challenges Vainamoinen to a storytelling contest.
(c) He challenges Vainamoinen to a race.
(d) He challenges Vainamoinen to a wrestling match.

4. What does Vainamoinen make out of the pike's body?
(a) An oar.
(b) A harp.
(c) A grinder.
(d) A sword.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who helps Vainamoinen cure the plagues and afflictions Louhi sends into his land?

2. What does Lemminkainen's mother warn him about when he is preparing to go away?

3. What happens when Vainamoinen, Ilmarinen, and Lemminkainen ask Louhi for the Sampo?

4. How does Lemminkainen respond to his mother's warnings?

5. What are Joukahainen's stories like?

(see the answer key)

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