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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 sees that Louhi has freed her prisoners?
(a) He sings a song of thanks.
(b) He releases Louhi from his chains.
(c) He builds a boat and sails home.
(d) He cracks the mountain open and imprisons Louhi in it.

2. How does Lemminkainen respond to his mother's warnings?
(a) He hides his money carefully.
(b) He makes sure to bring all his weapons.
(c) He boasts about how he will overcome each encounter.
(d) He gets quiet and afraid, and reconsiders his decision.

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

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

5. What allows Lemminkainen, Vainamoinen, and Ilmarinen to pass through the waterfall?
(a) Louhi's magic.
(b) Vainamoinen's magic.
(c) Lemminkainen's magic.
(d) A canopy Ilmarinen makes.

6. What does Vainamoinen make out of the pike's body?
(a) An oar.
(b) A sword.
(c) A grinder.
(d) A harp.

7. How do people respond to Vainamoinen's singing?
(a) They go into a frenzy.
(b) They go to their homes.
(c) They begin to weep.
(d) They sing his songs to their children.

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

9. Who tells Kullervo that his family still lives while he is wandering through the forest?
(a) Ilmarinen.
(b) Untamo.
(c) An old woman.
(d) The Daughter of Louhi.

10. How does Ilmarinen get one of Louhi's daughters to go with him?
(a) He threatens her.
(b) He kidnaps her.
(c) He sings to her.
(d) He promises her jewelry.

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

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

13. 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.

14. How does Ilmarinen punish Louhi's daughter?
(a) He turns her into a seabird.
(b) He eats her.
(c) He tells vicious stories about her.
(d) He throws her out into the cold without clothes.

15. Who helps Vainamoinen and Ilmarinen catch the giant fish?
(a) Louhi.
(b) The Creator.
(c) A dwarf.
(d) An old man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Louhi capture and lock up in a cave?

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

3. Who survives Untamo's attack on Kalervo's home?

4. What does Lemminkainen find in his food at the wedding feast?

5. What do Lemminkainen, Ilmarinen, and the oarsmen and maidens propose to do with the thing Vainamoinen makes from the pike?

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