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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vainamoinen do when Louhi offers him food?
(a) He eats and is indebted to Louhi.
(b) He refuses the food because he is still grieving for Aino.
(c) He says that all he wants is go home.
(d) He passes out from exhaustion.

2. Where does Vainamoinen plant his tree?
(a) In a bird's nest.
(b) In an eggshell.
(c) In the ashes of a fire.
(d) In the ocean.

3. What does Vainamionen do with the wood Sampsa brings back to Vainamoinen?
(a) Builds a lodge.
(b) Shapes it into a series of tools.
(c) Shapes it into a boat.
(d) Builds a house.

4. What does Vainamoinen do when he agrees to take what Joukahainen offers?
(a) He allows Joukahainen to be drowned.
(b) He tells Joukahainen the story of his own miserable future.
(c) He humiliates Joukahainen by turning him into a spider.
(d) He allows Joukahainen to return home.

5. Who helps Lemmenkainen's mother reassemble Lemmenkainen's body?
(a) A bee.
(b) A snake.
(c) A dolphin.
(d) Louhi's daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who cuts down the tree Vainamoinen plants?

2. How does Vainamoinen escape from the Underworld?

3. Where does the Storyteller get his story?

4. What does Vainamoinen ask Aino to do for him when they are walking through the forest together?

5. What are the chips from Vainamoinen's tree turned into?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Vainamoinen and Ilmarinen court the Maid of Pohja.

2. Describe Lemminkainen and Kyllikki's arrival at Lemminkainen's home.

3. What happens when Lemminkainen sees the fires from Pohja?

4. What happens when Lemminkainen happens upon the home of Louhi on his way to Pohja?

5. Describe Lemminkainen's elk hunt.

6. Describe Vainamoinen's birth.

7. Why does Vainamoinen go down to the underworld?

8. How do Joukahainen's mother and sister feel about the deal Joukahainen struck with Vainamoinen?

9. How does Kullervo end up being sold to Ilmarinen?

10. What does Kullervo do when he discovers Ilmarinen's wife's disdain for him?

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