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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Lemmenkainen catches the elk?
(a) He leads it back to Louhi.
(b) It escapes.
(c) He kills it.
(d) It attacks a village.

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

3. Who helps the young maiden brew beer?
(a) Louhi.
(b) Ilmarinen.
(c) The Maid of Pohja.
(d) A bear and a bee.

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

5. What happens when Vainamoinen wrestles with Vipunen?
(a) Vipunen swallows Vainamoinen.
(b) Vipunen tells Vainamoinen what he wants to know.
(c) Vainamoinen swallows Vipunen.
(d) Vainamoinen swallows the Daughter of the Underworld.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vainamoinen make out of the pike's body?

2. What does the Maid of Pohja say when she hears that Vainamoinen has arrived at the end of his journey?

3. What do Vainamoinen and his people do with the beast(s) Louhi sends to attack them?

4. Whom does Louhi capture and lock up in a cave?

5. Who tells the Maid of Pohja about how her life will be different once she is married?

(see the answer key)

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