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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which tree does Vainamoinen leave standing?
(a) The aspen.
(b) The laurel.
(c) The oak.
(d) The birch.

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

5. Why does Vipunen ultimately tell Vainamoinen what he wants to know?
(a) Vainamoinen says that he has the help of the Daughter of the Underworld.
(b) Vainamoinen promises to torture Vipunen.
(c) Vainamoinen says that he feels perfectly at home and will not leave.
(d) Vainamoinen makes increasingly violent threats to Vipunen.

6. How does Vainamoinen escape from the Underworld?
(a) He defeats Vipunen in single combat.
(b) He wrestles with the three-headed dog that guards the entrance to the Underworld.
(c) He transforms himself into a small snake-like animal.
(d) He offers to marry the Daughter of the Underworld.

7. Who asks Vainamoinen where he is sailing?
(a) Annikki.
(b) Ilmarinen.
(c) The maid of Pohja.
(d) Joukahainen.

8. What are the chips from Vainamoinen's tree turned into?
(a) People.
(b) Beavers.
(c) Baskets.
(d) Arrows.

9. What happens when the eagle drops Vainamoinen?
(a) Vainamoinen finds Aino in the form of an elk.
(b) Vainamoinen kills Joukahainen.
(c) Vainamoinen gets lonely and begins to cry.
(d) Vainamoinen finds the cave with the jewels.

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

11. Who is the Maid of Pohja?
(a) Vainamoinen's cousin.
(b) Aino.
(c) Joukahainen's youngest sister.
(d) Louhi's daughter.

12. What does the Maid of Pohja say when she hears that Vainamoinen has arrived at the end of his journey?
(a) She says that her father has forbidden her to marry Vainamoinen.
(b) She says that she does not like sailors and will not marry Vainamoinen.
(c) She says that she would be honored to marry Vainamoinen,
(d) She tells Vainamoinen that he is too old for her to marry.

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

14. What does Lemmenkainen demand of Louhi after he banishes the storytellers?
(a) He wants to know how to get rid of Markahattu.
(b) He wants her to give him her daughter in marriage.
(c) He wants to know who he will marry.
(d) He wants to know the secret of her immortality.

15. What is the little maid doing when she hears Vainamoinen?
(a) She is collecting firewood.
(b) She is fishing.
(c) She is taking off her jewels.
(d) She is doing her daily chores.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is happening when the Water-Mother experiences an upsurge of energy?

2. What does Joukahainen shoot at Vainamoinen with?

3. Which tree agrees to Sampsa's proposal to cut the tree down?

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

5. Where does the eagle take Vainamoinen when it rescues him?

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