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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 resolve to build at the beginning of Part 16?
(a) A tampo.
(b) A cave.
(c) A tree.
(d) A boat.

2. What does Vainamoinen do when he is listening to Joukahainen's stories?
(a) He causes a swamp to rise up around Joukahainen.
(b) He kills Joukahainen with a sword.
(c) He slanders Joukahainen to the other listeners.
(d) He runs and hides himself away.

3. How does this lumberjack cut down such an enormous tree?
(a) He calls a team of lumberjacks.
(b) He turns into a huge, armor clad warrior.
(c) He summons a team of beavers.
(d) He pulls the tree up with his bare hands.

4. Whom does Lemminkainen resolve to win?
(a) Louhi.
(b) The Maid of Pohja.
(c) Aino.
(d) Kyllikki.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who cuts down the tree Vainamoinen plants?

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

3. Where does Vainamoinen want to send his friend Sampsa at the beginning of part 16?

4. What does Louhi ask from Vainamoinen in return for her help?

5. Where does Vainamoinen plant his tree?

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