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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Louhi do when she finds that the Sampo is gone?

2. What does the character do who is not welcome at the wedding?

3. What do Vainamoinen and Ilmarinen encounter on their way to Pohja?

4. How does Ilmarinen's wife, the Daughter of Louhi, express her dislike for Kullervo?

5. How does Vainamoinen keep Louhi and her soldiers from catching up with him and Lemminkainen and Ilmarinen?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What information, what natural phenomena, and what morals does the Kalevala teach? Use examples from the text to describe what the Kalevala teaches and how it delivers each kind of knowledge.

Essay Topic 2

What rules govern hospitality in the Kalevala? Are guests expected to follow a certain code? Are hosts? What ties and what obligations bind them? Cite examples from the Kalevala to describe the guest-host bond in the Kalevala.

Essay Topic 3

Do the characters in the Kalevala show personal growth over the course of the tales? Do they simply represent eternal personalities? Are they unchanging gods, or are they human beings who learn and grow? Answer with specific examples from the text.

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