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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Parts 40, 41, 42, 43, and 44.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the character do who is not welcome at the wedding?
(a) He makes a scene by telling ominous stories.
(b) He complains to Vainamoinen.
(c) He gets angry and prepares to go away.
(d) He threatens Vainamoinen with violence.

2. How does Ilmarinen punish Louhi's daughter?
(a) He tells vicious stories about her.
(b) He throws her out into the cold without clothes.
(c) He turns her into a seabird.
(d) He eats her.

3. What happens when Vainamoinen, Ilmarinen, and Lemminkainen ask Louhi for the Sampo?
(a) She disappears.
(b) She conjures a spell to put them to sleep.
(c) She refuses to give it to them.
(d) She gives it to them with one of her daughters in marriage.

4. How does Kullervo speak about his family when his mother asks him not to leave?
(a) Respectfully.
(b) Dismissively.
(c) Affectionately.
(d) Contemptuously.

5. Who helps Lemmenkainen capture the elk after his snowshoes break?
(a) Louhi's daughter's governess.
(b) The gods of the forest.
(c) The gods of the mountains.
(d) The god of the dark cave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the person who comes to meet Vainamoinen say that Vainamoinen's purpose is when he arrives back home?

2. How does Vainamoinen escape from the Underworld?

3. How does Ilmarinen get one of Louhi's daughters to go with him?

4. To whom does the little maid recount what she hears from Vainamoinen?

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

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