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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Parts 26, 27, 28, 29, and 30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vainamoinen feel as he listens to Joukahainen's stories?
(a) Impatience.
(b) Envy.
(c) Fear.
(d) Admiration.

2. What is Vainamoinen missing as he works with the wood Sampsa brought him?
(a) Iron hoops.
(b) Three magic words.
(c) Gum for caulking.
(d) A helper.

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

4. Who is the Maid of Pohja?
(a) Louhi's daughter.
(b) Vainamoinen's cousin.
(c) Aino.
(d) Joukahainen's youngest sister.

5. What does Vainamoinen do when Louhi offers him food?
(a) He says that all he wants is go home.
(b) He eats and is indebted to Louhi.
(c) He refuses the food because he is still grieving for Aino.
(d) He passes out from exhaustion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Lemminkainen seek out to help him get revenge on the armies that had pursued him?

2. What does the Daughter of the Underworld tell Vainamoinen?

3. What does Vainamoinen build to convince Vipunen to tell him what he wants to know?

4. What does Vainamoinen ask Aino to do for him when they are walking through the forest together?

5. How does Jourkahainen feel toward Vainamoinen in part 6 of the Kalevala?

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