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This test consists of 5 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) At the bottom of a vast lake.
(c) In the forest.
(d) In the ocean.

2. What does the Child tell the Maid of Pohja when she bursts into tears?
(a) He tells her that with luck she will escape from her husband.
(b) He says that she is going to be much more alone in the future.
(c) He says that she is marrying the best of men.
(d) He tells her that she should console herself by having children.

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

4. What happens when Vainamoinen, Ilmarinen, and Lemminkainen ask Louhi for the Sampo?
(a) She refuses to give it to them.
(b) She disappears.
(c) She gives it to them with one of her daughters in marriage.
(d) She conjures a spell to put them to sleep.

5. What does Lemminkainen discover when he returns from his hiding place?
(a) Much of what he remembers has been destroyed.
(b) His family is older and he does not recognize them.
(c) Everything has been improved and modernized.
(d) His parents and his friends have all died.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Lemminkainen, Ilmarinen, and the oarsmen and maidens propose to do with the thing Vainamoinen makes from the pike?

2. Whom does Vainamoinen toast at the wedding?

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

4. What is Louhi worried about, with regard to the wedding feast?

5. What do Vainamoinen's tears turn into after they drop into the sea?

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