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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What does the Maid of Pohja learn about how her married life will be different?
(a) They tell her that she is in charge of her mother's household now in addition to her husband's.
(b) She is told that she will never feel as safe in her husband's home as she was in her family's.
(c) They tell her that she must bear children within the first year in order to have a happy marriage.
(d) They tell her that she is safer now that she is a woman and can answer her husband's authority with her own.

4. Who helps Vainamoinen and Ilmarinen catch the giant fish?
(a) An old man.
(b) A dwarf.
(c) Louhi.
(d) The Creator.

5. What does Vainamoinen try to convince Ilmarinen to help him do?
(a) Steal the Sampo from Pohja.
(b) Steal a different daughter from Louhi.
(c) Revenge himself on the daughter of Louhi.
(d) Steal jewels from Louhi.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kullervo speak about his family when his mother asks him not to leave?

2. Who does Kullervo seduce on his way back from a financial errand?

3. What causes Lemminkainen to rush home to Pohja?

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

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

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