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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the person who comes to meet Vainamoinen say that Vainamoinen's purpose is when he arrives back home?
(a) To marry Louhi.
(b) To seek an alliance with Annikki.
(c) To defeat Ilmarinen.
(d) To marry the Maid of Pohja.

2. What is Joukahainen's mother's reaction to Aino's marriage to Vainamoinen?
(a) She is delighted that Aino will be married to someone of such repute.
(b) She is envious of her daughter's good fortune.
(c) She is distraught that Aino will be married to an old man.
(d) She is furious that Aino will be married to her enemy.

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

4. Who collects the chips that come from cutting down the tree Vainamoinen plants?
(a) Louhi.
(b) Lemminkainen.
(c) Ilmatar.
(d) The Maid of Pohja.

5. Who comes to the shore to see who has arrived there?
(a) The Maid of Pohja.
(b) Joukahainen.
(c) The Lord of Pohja.
(d) Louhi.

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

7. What condition is the Water-Mother trying to find relief from?
(a) She has been split off from the male counterpart of the cosmos.
(b) She suffers a pregnancy she cannot give birth to.
(c) She suffers a broken foot.
(d) She has been drowned in a flood.

8. What does Aino do in response to Vainamoinen's request?
(a) She offers to betray her brother.
(b) She refuses to renounce her family.
(c) She renounces her father.
(d) She drops her jewelry on the ground and runs home.

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

10. 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.

11. What does Lemmenkainen do when his happiness with Kyllikki ends?
(a) He resolves to travel to Pohja.
(b) He sends Kyllikki away.
(c) He gives Kyllikki back to her mother.
(d) He marries Kyllikki to the Moon.

12. What was the Water-Mother's name before she became the Water-Mother?
(a) Daughter of the Air.
(b) Louhi.
(c) The Maid of Pohja.
(d) Ilmarinen.

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

14. What does Ilmarinen ride off on, after he finds out where Vainamoinen is going?
(a) A magic carpet.
(b) A crow's back.
(c) A magic sledge.
(d) A hand-made boat.

15. What does Vainamoinen ride on his journey?
(a) A magical crow.
(b) An burro.
(c) A magical salmon.
(d) A magical elk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the water mother's baby do when he is born?

2. Where does Lemminkainen take his new bride?

3. What does Vainamoinen resolve to build at the beginning of Part 16?

4. Who impregnates the Water-Mother?

5. What does Vainamoinen build to convince Vipunen to tell him what he wants to know?

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