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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vainamoinen do when he is listening to Joukahainen's stories?
(a) He slanders Joukahainen to the other listeners.
(b) He causes a swamp to rise up around Joukahainen.
(c) He kills Joukahainen with a sword.
(d) He runs and hides himself away.

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

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

4. Where does Lemminkainen take his new bride?
(a) Home to his hovel.
(b) Home to his castle.
(c) To the land of Pohja.
(d) To the seaside.

5. How does Jourkahainen feel toward Vainamoinen in part 6 of the Kalevala?
(a) He is anxious to make an alliance with Vainamoinen.
(b) He is jealousy and resentful.
(c) He wants to repay Vainamoinen for the indignities he suffered.
(d) He is full of admiration.

6. What does Joukahainen's mother tell him about shooting Vainamoinen?
(a) She tells him where to aim.
(b) She tells him the secret of Vainamoinen's vulnerability.
(c) She tells him not to do it.
(d) She tells him where to find him.

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

8. 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.

9. What is happening when the Water-Mother experiences an upsurge of energy?
(a) The small bird's eggs are hatching on her knee.
(b) The Maid of Pohja is singing to her.
(c) Lemminkainen is being born.
(d) Monsters are swallowing the sun.

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

11. What name is the Water-Mother given?
(a) The Maid of Pohja.
(b) Louhi.
(c) Ilmatar.
(d) Earth Mother.

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

13. Who cuts down the tree Vainamoinen plants?
(a) Lemminkainen.
(b) Louhi.
(c) Two farmers.
(d) A very small man.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asks Vainamoinen where he is sailing?

2. What does Lemminkainen do to press his suit?

3. Where does Vainamoinen plant his tree?

4. What is Vainamoinen thinking about when the eagle rescues him?

5. Who sets out the series of tasks Vainamoinen must complete if he is going to marry?

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