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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Louhi capture and lock up in a cave?
(a) Ilmarinen and her daughter.
(b) Vainamoinen and Ilmarinen.
(c) The sun and moon.
(d) The creator and the old man.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Kullervo that his family still lives while he is wandering through the forest?

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

3. What do Vainamoinen and his people do with the beast(s) Louhi sends to attack them?

4. Where do Vainamoinen and Ilmarinen go to look for the flame the Creator sends?

5. Kullervo hears the story of his sister's disappearance. What was she doing when she disappeared?

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