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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Parts 18 and 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Vainamoinen wrestles with Vipunen?
(a) Vipunen swallows Vainamoinen.
(b) Vainamoinen swallows Vipunen.
(c) Vainamoinen swallows the Daughter of the Underworld.
(d) Vipunen tells Vainamoinen what he wants to know.

2. What does the person who comes to meet Vainamoinen say that Vainamoinen's purpose is when he arrives back home?
(a) To defeat Ilmarinen.
(b) To seek an alliance with Annikki.
(c) To marry Louhi.
(d) To marry the Maid of Pohja.

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

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

5. Who asks Vainamoinen where he is sailing?
(a) Joukahainen.
(b) The maid of Pohja.
(c) Ilmarinen.
(d) Annikki.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the eagle drops Vainamoinen?

2. What does the Storyteller tell us in the first stanzas?

3. Who comes to the shore to see who has arrived there?

4. What happens when Lemmenkainen catches the elk?

5. When Vainamoinen's finally arrives at his destination, how is his arrival first announced?

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