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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. Who comes after the Water-Mother prays for relief?
(a) A small bird.
(b) The Maid of Pohja.
(c) Vainamoinen.
(d) Louhi.

2. How does Kullervo perform his tasks on the family farm?
(a) He whips everything into shape.
(b) He changes how everything is done.
(c) He damages everything he touches.
(d) He invents tools for every little task.

3. What does Louhi do when she finds Vainamoinen?
(a) She offers him her daughter's hand.
(b) She takes him to her home and bathes him.
(c) She protects him from her son.
(d) She convinces her son to kill him.

4. Who cuts down the tree Vainamoinen plants?
(a) Lemminkainen.
(b) Louhi.
(c) Two farmers.
(d) A very small man.

5. What does the Maid of Pohja learn about how her married life will be different?
(a) They tell her that she is in charge of her mother's household now in addition to her husband's.
(b) They tell her that she is safer now that she is a woman and can answer her husband's authority with her own.
(c) She is told that she will never feel as safe in her husband's home as she was in her family's.
(d) They tell her that she must bear children within the first year in order to have a happy marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who helps Lemmenkainen capture the elk after his snowshoes break?

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

3. What does Vainamoinen do when he agrees to take what Joukahainen offers?

4. Where does Vainamoinen plant his tree?

5. What does Lemmenkainen do when his happiness with Kyllikki ends?

(see the answer key)

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