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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the Child tell the Maid of Pohja when she bursts into tears?
(a) He says that she is marrying the best of men.
(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 tells her that with luck she will escape from her husband.

3. When does Kullervo's mother die?
(a) While he is pleading with her for permission to leave.
(b) While he is at war with Untamo.
(c) While he is looking for the meaning of his life.
(d) While he is on his way home from the sea.

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

5. Whom does Vainamoinen toast at the wedding?
(a) Lemminkainen.
(b) Storytellers.
(c) Ilmarinen.
(d) The Maid of Pohja.

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

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

8. What does Lemminkainen's mother warn him about when he is preparing to go away?
(a) The dangers he will face on his journey.
(b) The danger of his absence in his father's illness.
(c) The insult he is giving to Vainamoinen.
(d) The possibility that he will never return.

9. What do Vainamoinen's tears turn into after they drop into the sea?
(a) Ducks.
(b) Pearls.
(c) Boats.
(d) Pikes.

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

11. What does Lemminkainen find in his food at the wedding feast?
(a) Cream filling.
(b) Worms.
(c) Stuffing.
(d) Pins.

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

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

14. What does Louhi tell Ilmarinen when he returns to Pohja?
(a) She upbraids him for the death of her daughter.
(b) She says that he is welcome with his new bride.
(c) She tells him that his craftsmanship is superb.
(d) She says that she will not give him another daughter.

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

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. What happens on the first morning when Ilmarinen wakes up next to the woman he created?

4. What song is sung at the end of the feast?

5. Who kills the pike when Ilmarinen, Lemminkainen, and Vainamoinen run aground on the pike's back?

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