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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 do Vainamoinen and Ilmarinen agree to do when they arrive where they are going?
(a) They agree to gamble for the Maid of Pohja's hand.
(b) They agree to let the Maid of Pohja choose between them.
(c) They agree not to fight over the Maid of Pohja's hand.
(d) They agree to fight to the death.

2. What is the little maid doing when she hears Vainamoinen?
(a) She is doing her daily chores.
(b) She is taking off her jewels.
(c) She is collecting firewood.
(d) She is fishing.

3. What does Aino do in response to Vainamoinen's request?
(a) She refuses to renounce her family.
(b) She offers to betray her brother.
(c) She renounces her father.
(d) She drops her jewelry on the ground and runs home.

4. What does the water mother's baby do when he is born?
(a) Looks for a place to build a castle.
(b) Looks for his father.
(c) Looks for someone to sow seeds in the land.
(d) Conquers his father's henchmen.

5. To whom does the little maid recount what she hears from Vainamoinen?
(a) Joukahainen.
(b) Louhi.
(c) Aino.
(d) Aino's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which tree does Vainamoinen leave standing?

2. What name is the Water-Mother given?

3. What does Louhi do when she finds Vainamoinen?

4. What is Vainamoinen thinking about when the eagle rescues him?

5. Who helps Lemmenkainen's mother reassemble Lemmenkainen's body?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Ilmarinen finds that his new bride has amused herself with another man while Ilmarinen was sleeping?

2. What happens to the chips that come from cutting down the mighty oak?

3. How does Vainamoinen kill the pike and what does he do with it after he kills it?

4. Why does Vainamoinen go down to the underworld?

5. What happens when Vainamoinen prays for someone to cut down the enormous oak?

6. How is the ox prepared for the wedding feast?

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

8. What happens after Vainamoinen refuses to cease working at his blacksmith's shop inside of Vipunen?

9. How does Ilmarinen's wife express her distaste for Kullervo?

10. How does Vainamoinen convince Vipunen to tell him the three magic words?

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