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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Vainamoinen tell Louhi in response to her request?
(a) He tells Louhi that what she asks cannot be done.
(b) He does what she asks and marries her daughter.
(c) He tells Louhi that he does not want to marry her daughter.
(d) He tells Louhi that he knows someone who can do what she wants done.

3. What does Vainamoinen build to convince Vipunen to tell him what he wants to know?
(a) A hovel.
(b) A castle.
(c) A forge.
(d) A grinder.

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

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

6. What does Lemmenkainen decide to do after he is reassembled and brought back to life?
(a) He resolves to revenge himself on Markahattu.
(b) He resolves to marry Louhi's daughter at any cost.
(c) He takes his magic cloak back to Louhi's house.
(d) He decides to live with his mother.

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

8. What does the Storyteller tell us in the first stanzas?
(a) He describes the beginning of the world.
(b) He announces that he is going to sing of war and gods.
(c) He describes the people whose epic he is going to sing.
(d) He describes his need to pass on the ancient wisdom.

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

10. What does Vainamoinen catch?
(a) He catches a number of fish, but none of them is Aino.
(b) He catches a fish that tells him how to catch Aino.
(c) He catches Aino, who tells him a new technique for catching fish.
(d) He catches a salmon that was in fact Aino.

11. What is Vainamoinen thinking about when the eagle rescues him?
(a) He is wondering what form he will find Aino in.
(b) He is thinking about what he will tell his mother now.
(c) He thinks about making the ocean his home.
(d) He is thinking about hoe to get revenge on Joukahainen.

12. What condition does Louhi impose on Lemmenkainen before she can give him what he wants?
(a) He has to defeat Markahattu in a storytelling contest.
(b) He has to walk across the ocean.
(c) He has to go out on snowshoes and capture a mighty elk.
(d) He has to defeat the gods in a hunting contest.

13. What does Lemmenkainen's mother ask of Ilmarinen?
(a) She asks him to knit Lemmenkainen back together.
(b) She asks him to make a rake for her.
(c) She asks him to build her a Sampo.
(d) She asks him for a potion that will heal Lemmenkainen.

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

15. Who ultimately helps Louhi do what she wants done?
(a) Joukahainen.
(b) The Maid of Pohja.
(c) Ilmarinen.
(d) Vainamoinen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes after the Water-Mother prays for relief?

2. Whom does Lemminkainen resolve to win?

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

4. What does Vainamoinen tell the living creatures after he returns from the Underworld?

5. Who impregnates the Water-Mother?

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