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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Whose praises does Vainamoinen sing at Ilmarinen's home?
(a) His own.
(b) Ilmarinen's.
(c) The Maid of Pohja's.
(d) Lokka's.

4. What comes out of the giant fish's belly?
(a) Smaller fish.
(b) Fire.
(c) Mountains.
(d) The moon.

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

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

7. What does Ilmarinen make to help him achieve the task he wants Vainamoinen to help him with?
(a) A boat.
(b) A grinder.
(c) A woman.
(d) A sword.

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

9. 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 with luck she will escape from her husband.
(c) He says that she is going to be much more alone in the future.
(d) He tells her that she should console herself by having children.

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

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

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

13. How does Untamo try to break Kullevo's spirit?
(a) He kills Kullervo's beloved.
(b) He burns down Kullervo's home.
(c) He gives Kullervo menial jobs.
(d) He tortures Kullervo.

14. What does Lemminkainen do to the Lord of Pohja's head?
(a) He beats the Lord of Pohja in the head with a mallet.
(b) He cuts it off and puts it on a pole in the courtyard.
(c) He cuts it off and throws it in the sea.
(d) He cuts the Lord of Pohja's cheek with a carving knife.

15. Who alerts Louhi to the theft of the Sampo?
(a) A crow.
(b) A storm.
(c) A heron.
(d) A pike.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who helps Louhi get her revenge for the theft of the Sampo?

2. What does Louhi see Ilmarinen making that causes her to set her prisoners free?

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

4. What does Louhi's daughter do when Ilmarinen takes her with him?

5. What does Vainamoinen do when he sees that Louhi has freed her prisoners?

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