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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens after Vainamoinen reaches the cave where Louhi is keeping her prisoners?
(a) He frees Louhi's daughter.
(b) He cannot break the locks at first.
(c) He uses magic to free the prisoners.
(d) He is overcome by a giant dog.

2. What does the Old Man by the Fire say about stories of children?
(a) He says that they contain all the simple truth of the world.
(b) He says that they are the cause of all mirth.
(c) He says that they are shallow lies.
(d) He says that they can be misleading.

3. What does Lemminkainen discover when he returns from his hiding place?
(a) Everything has been improved and modernized.
(b) His parents and his friends have all died.
(c) His family is older and he does not recognize them.
(d) Much of what he remembers has been destroyed.

4. Whom does Lemminkainen seek out to help him get revenge on the armies that had pursued him?
(a) Frost.
(b) Tiera.
(c) Annikki.
(d) The Storyteller.

5. Kullervo hears the story of his sister's disappearance. What was she doing when she disappeared?
(a) Picking flowers.
(b) Gathering berries.
(c) Washing her hair.
(d) Washing clothes in a river.

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

7. How does Kullervo get revenge against the Daughter of Louhi?
(a) He poisons her.
(b) He convinces Ilmarinen to disavow her.
(c) He contrives to have her devoured by beasts of his own devising.
(d) He leads an army against her palace and besieges her.

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

9. What does Ilmarinen tell his metallic bride when he wakes up beside her?
(a) He says she is not the right woman for him.
(b) He says that he made her and now he has to live with her.
(c) He says that he can fix her.
(d) He says she is ugly and he is ashamed of himself for making her.

10. What is Louhi worried about, with regard to the wedding feast?
(a) Keeping the guests in line.
(b) Having enough beer.
(c) Getting the invitations out.
(d) Having too many guests.

11. Who tells the Maid of Pohja about how her life will be different once she is married?
(a) Old women of the household.
(b) Louhi.
(c) Vainamoinen.
(d) Ilmarinen.

12. What do Vainamoinen and his people do with the beast(s) Louhi sends to attack them?
(a) They kill the bear and eat it.
(b) They tame the dog and teach it to hunt.
(c) They capture the bees in trees and make mead from their honey.
(d) They kill the crows with stones.

13. What does Louhi do when she finds that the Sampo is gone?
(a) She uses her magic to bring it back.
(b) She builds another one.
(c) She sends fish to swallow the thieves.
(d) She sends storms after the thieves.

14. Where do Vainamoinen and Ilmarinen go to look for the flame the Creator sends?
(a) In the forest.
(b) In the heavens.
(c) In the ocean.
(d) At the bottom of a vast lake.

15. Who helps Vainamoinen cure the plagues and afflictions Louhi sends into his land?
(a) An old man.
(b) Lemminkainen.
(c) One of Louhi's daughters.
(d) Ilmarinen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who alerts Louhi to the theft of the Sampo?

2. Where does Ilmarinen go to make himself a new wife?

3. What comes out of the giant fish's belly?

4. How does Lemminkainen respond to his mother's warnings?

5. What preparations are made for the marriage of Vainamoinen and the Maid of Pohja?

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