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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 is the name of the baby the Water-Mother is carrying?
(a) Louhi.
(b) Vainamoinen.
(c) Lemmenkainen.
(d) The Maid of Pohja.

2. What is happening when the Water-Mother experiences an upsurge of energy?
(a) The Maid of Pohja is singing to her.
(b) Monsters are swallowing the sun.
(c) Lemminkainen is being born.
(d) The small bird's eggs are hatching on her knee.

3. Why does Vipunen ultimately tell Vainamoinen what he wants to know?
(a) Vainamoinen says that he has the help of the Daughter of the Underworld.
(b) Vainamoinen promises to torture Vipunen.
(c) Vainamoinen makes increasingly violent threats to Vipunen.
(d) Vainamoinen says that he feels perfectly at home and will not leave.

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

5. What happens when Joukahainen fires at Vainamoinen?
(a) His second shot kills Vainamoinen.
(b) His first shot kills Vainamoinen.
(c) His third shot kills the magical elk.
(d) His mother intervenes to protect Vainamoinen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of tree does Vainamoinen plant?

2. What was the Water-Mother's name before she became the Water-Mother?

3. What does Ilmarinen ride off on, after he finds out where Vainamoinen is going?

4. Who collects the chips that come from cutting down the tree Vainamoinen plants?

5. What is Vainamoinen thinking about when the eagle rescues him?

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