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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What story does Aino's mother tell her when Aino is upset about marrying?
(a) She tells Aino about how Aino's father won her hand by betraying his family.
(b) She tells Aino about the jewels hidden in the cave.
(c) She describes Joukahainen's gambling debts.
(d) She tells Aino about her brother's treacherous history.

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 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.

3. Where does the Storyteller get his story?
(a) From his parents.
(b) From a bird.
(c) From his children.
(d) From the ocean.

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

5. What does Lemminkainen tell his bride when he arrives where he takes her?
(a) He promises to build her a bigger house.
(b) He tells her the conditions she has to meet for him to free her.
(c) He tells her why he abducted her.
(d) He threatens to kill her if she tries to escape.

6. What occasion marks the end of Lemminkainen and Kyllikki's happiness?
(a) Kyllikki goes dancing and Lemmenkainen confronts her.
(b) Kyllikki betrays Lemminkainen with Vainamoinen.
(c) Lemmenkainen abandons Kyllikki on an island.
(d) Kyllikki tells Lemmenkainen's enemies the secret of his vulnerability.

7. What story does the Storyteller tell first?
(a) The story of how he first heard his story.
(b) The story of the first man.
(c) The story of how the world was made.
(d) The story of discovery of language.

8. Who helps Lemmenkainen's mother reassemble Lemmenkainen's body?
(a) A bee.
(b) A snake.
(c) Louhi's daughter.
(d) A dolphin.

9. What is Vainamoinen missing as he works with the wood Sampsa brought him?
(a) Gum for caulking.
(b) A helper.
(c) Three magic words.
(d) Iron hoops.

10. What does Joukahainen shoot at Vainamoinen with?
(a) A pistol.
(b) A cannon.
(c) A crossbow with poisoned arrows.
(d) A rifle.

11. What does Vainamoinen ask Aino to do for him when they are walking through the forest together?
(a) Wear her jewelry.
(b) Betray her brother.
(c) Renounce her father.
(d) Take off her jewelry.

12. What happens after Joukahainen fires at Vainamoinen?
(a) Vainamoinen saves the arrows for his revenge.
(b) Vainamoinen dies on the beach.
(c) Vainamoinen dies in the forest.
(d) Vainamoinen swims for his life.

13. What sound does Vainamoinen find sad after he goes fishing?
(a) The nightingale's song.
(b) The crow's call.
(c) The cuckoo's song.
(d) The hummingbird's wings.

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

15. Who is not banished from the fire by Lemmenkainen's magical songs?
(a) Markahattu.
(b) Kyllikki.
(c) Ilmarinen.
(d) Louhi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vainamoinen answer when he is asked where he is sailing to?

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

3. Which tree does Vainamoinen leave standing?

4. What are Joukahainen's stories like?

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

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