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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Louhi see Ilmarinen making that causes her to set her prisoners free?
(a) A collar and chains to bind her.
(b) A magic sword to kill her.
(c) A woman to replace her.
(d) A poison sweetbread for her.

3. What song is sung at the end of the feast?
(a) The Maid of Pohja sings Vainamoinen's praises.
(b) Ilmarinen sings his praises of Vainamoinen and the Maid of Pohja.
(c) Vainamoinen sings the praises of the creator.
(d) Louhi sings Vainamoinen's praises.

4. 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 tricks them into going the wrong direction.
(c) He kills them with his sword.
(d) He sings them to sleep.

5. 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.

6. Where does Ilmarinen go to make himself a new wife?
(a) The forest.
(b) The forge.
(c) The ocean.
(d) The kitchen.

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

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

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

10. What does the Lord of Pohja offer Lemminkainen after Lemminkainen complains about the food?
(a) A stream to drink from.
(b) A shield.
(c) A drinking cup.
(d) A bride.

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

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

13. What does the character do who is not welcome at the wedding?
(a) He gets angry and prepares to go away.
(b) He makes a scene by telling ominous stories.
(c) He threatens Vainamoinen with violence.
(d) He complains to Vainamoinen.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kullervo's mother tell him after she hears about the woman he seduced?

2. What does Vainamoinen try to convince Ilmarinen to help him do?

3. What happens when Vainamoinen, Ilmarinen, and Lemminkainen ask Louhi for the Sampo?

4. What does Louhi tell Ilmarinen when he returns to Pohja?

5. Who helps Vainamoinen and Ilmarinen catch the giant fish?

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