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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 does Vainamoinen tell the living creatures after he returns from the Underworld?
(a) He tells them not to go there themselves.
(b) He tells them the magic words he learned there.
(c) He describes the horrors he saw.
(d) He tells them all about the Daughter of the Underworld.

2. What condition is the Water-Mother trying to find relief from?
(a) She suffers a pregnancy she cannot give birth to.
(b) She suffers a broken foot.
(c) She has been drowned in a flood.
(d) She has been split off from the male counterpart of the cosmos.

3. What does Vainamoinen do when he agrees to take what Joukahainen offers?
(a) He tells Joukahainen the story of his own miserable future.
(b) He allows Joukahainen to be drowned.
(c) He allows Joukahainen to return home.
(d) He humiliates Joukahainen by turning him into a spider.

4. What story does the Storyteller tell first?
(a) The story of discovery of language.
(b) The story of the first man.
(c) The story of how the world was made.
(d) The story of how he first heard his story.

5. What does Vainamionen do with the wood Sampsa brings back to Vainamoinen?
(a) Shapes it into a series of tools.
(b) Builds a lodge.
(c) Builds a house.
(d) Shapes it into a boat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lemminkainen do to press his suit?

2. What does Vainamoinen go fishing for in part 5?

3. What does Vainamoinen resolve to build at the beginning of Part 16?

4. How does this lumberjack cut down such an enormous tree?

5. What does Vainamoinen do when he is listening to Joukahainen's stories?

(see the answer key)

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