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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose help does Vipunen ask for, to help him get rid of Vainamoinen?

2. What does the Storyteller tell us in the first stanzas?

3. Where does Vainamoinen plant his tree?

4. What does the character who was not banished do after all the others are banished from the room by Lemmenkainen?

5. Who asks Vainamoinen where he is sailing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens after Vainamoinen is rescued by the eagle?

2. How does Vainamoinen make pearls by playing the kantele?

3. How does Vainamoinen convince Ilmarinen to help him steal the Sampo in Pohja?

4. What does the Maid of Pohja dream, and what does her dream signify?

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

6. What do Marjetta's parents do when Marjetta gets pregnant?

7. Describe how Lemminkainen's mother brings him back to life.

8. What happens when Vainamoinen tells Aino to wear jewelry?

9. What happens after Kullervo slaughters Untamo's family?`

10. How does Marjetta lose and then find her baby?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

On a number of occasions, children deliver important information in the Kalevala. Citing three examples from the text, describe the role of the child in the Kalevala.

Essay Topic 2

How does the Kalevala describe women? What range of roles do women play? What range of roles do men play? Is there ever any overlap or play with roles? Is Louhi ever masculine? Is Vainamoinen ever feminine?

Essay Topic 3

Is the Kalevala for children or for adults? Is it for everyone? Use examples from the tales to describe what the Kalevala offers for either audience.

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