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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Parts 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, and 36.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Joukahainen's mother tell him about shooting Vainamoinen?
(a) She tells him the secret of Vainamoinen's vulnerability.
(b) She tells him where to find him.
(c) She tells him where to aim.
(d) She tells him not to do it.

4. What condition does Louhi impose on Lemmenkainen before she can give him what he wants?
(a) He has to defeat Markahattu in a storytelling contest.
(b) He has to defeat the gods in a hunting contest.
(c) He has to walk across the ocean.
(d) He has to go out on snowshoes and capture a mighty elk.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lemminkainen discover when he returns from his hiding place?

2. What does Vainamoinen ride on his journey?

3. What does Lemmenkainen demand of Louhi after he banishes the storytellers?

4. Whose praises does Vainamoinen sing at Ilmarinen's home?

5. Where does the eagle take Vainamoinen when it rescues him?

(see the answer key)

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