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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Lemminkainen hide after the wedding feast?
(a) On an island of women.
(b) In a chest in his mother's bedroom.
(c) In a new country to the west.
(d) In a closet off of of his mother's kitchen.

2. What does Louhi's daughter do when she and Ilmarinen stop for the night?
(a) She carries on with another man.
(b) She escapes.
(c) She convinces men in the inn to murder Ilmarinen.
(d) She writes to her mother.

3. What does the Child tell the Maid of Pohja when she bursts into tears?
(a) He tells her that with luck she will escape from her husband.
(b) He tells her that she should console herself by having children.
(c) He says that she is going to be much more alone in the future.
(d) He says that she is marrying the best of men.

4. What happens to Lemminkainen and his friend on their way to get revenge against Pohja?
(a) They meet with mermaids who prophecy their fate.
(b) They are drowned on their way to Pohja.
(c) They lose their way after Frost freezes their boat in the water.
(d) They kill the ferryman who could have taken them into Pohja.

5. What do Lemminkainen, Ilmarinen, and the oarsmen and maidens propose to do with the thing Vainamoinen makes from the pike?
(a) Brew beer with it.
(b) Set it on fire.
(c) Use it to trap Louhi's daughters.
(d) Throw it into the sea.

6. How does Kullervo perform his tasks on the family farm?
(a) He whips everything into shape.
(b) He damages everything he touches.
(c) He invents tools for every little task.
(d) He changes how everything is done.

7. What does Louhi do to get revenge on Lemminkainen for what Lemminkainen did to the Lord of Pohja?
(a) She banishes him from the wedding feast.
(b) She sends an army into his country to destroy his home.
(c) She cuts off his head and throws it into the sea.
(d) She conjures an army to pursue him.

8. What does Louhi send to attack Vainamoinen after the plagues?
(a) A swarm of bees.
(b) A bear.
(c) A giant dog.
(d) A flock of crows.

9. What preparations are made for the marriage of Vainamoinen and the Maid of Pohja?
(a) Songs are taught to the musicians.
(b) An ox is butchered.
(c) A butcher is taught how to butcher an ox.
(d) Beer is prepared.

10. What does the Maid of Pohja learn about how her married life will be different?
(a) They tell her that she must bear children within the first year in order to have a happy marriage.
(b) They tell her that she is safer now that she is a woman and can answer her husband's authority with her own.
(c) They tell her that she is in charge of her mother's household now in addition to her husband's.
(d) She is told that she will never feel as safe in her husband's home as she was in her family's.

11. What happens when Vainamoinen, Ilmarinen, and Lemminkainen ask Louhi for the Sampo?
(a) She conjures a spell to put them to sleep.
(b) She disappears.
(c) She gives it to them with one of her daughters in marriage.
(d) She refuses to give it to them.

12. How does Vainamoinen keep Louhi and her soldiers from catching up with him and Lemminkainen and Ilmarinen?
(a) He conjures a reef on which their ship wrecks.
(b) He sings them to sleep.
(c) He kills them with his sword.
(d) He tricks them into going the wrong direction.

13. In what form does Louhi attack Vainamoinen, Ilmarinen, and Lemminkainen's ship?
(a) As a giant eagle.
(b) As a storm.
(c) As a bear.
(d) As a pike.

14. What does Kullervo's mother tell him after she hears about the woman he seduced?
(a) She tells him to introduce her to the girl's parents.
(b) She tells him to marry the girl.
(c) She tells him to take the girl to Untamo.
(d) She tells him to go away.

15. Who helps the young maiden brew beer?
(a) A bear and a bee.
(b) Ilmarinen.
(c) The Maid of Pohja.
(d) Louhi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Lord of Pohja offer Lemminkainen after Lemminkainen complains about the food?

2. Where do Vainamoinen and Ilmarinen go to look for the flame the Creator sends?

3. How does Ilmarinen's wife, the Daughter of Louhi, express her dislike for Kullervo?

4. Who tells the Maid of Pohja about how her life will be different once she is married?

5. What does Lemminkainen say when he arrives at the wedding feast?

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