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Language, Epic and Modern Literature

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  1. To which language family does Finnish belong?
  2. How many official languages does Finland have at the national level?
  3. Which feature is true of the Finnish noun?
  4. Who compiled the Kalevala, the national epic of Finland?
  5. On which date is Kalevala Day, also called the Day of Finnish Culture, celebrated?
  6. Which novel by Aleksis Kivi is regarded as the first significant novel in Finnish?
  7. Who wrote Tuntematon sotilas (The Unknown Soldier), a novel about ordinary soldiers in the Continuation War?
  8. Which Finnish writer received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1939?
  9. Who is considered the father of written Finnish, having published the first Finnish primer around 1543?
  10. Which case would you use in Finnish to say the house is in the house, as in talossa?
  11. Which sentence gives the correct noun form after a number greater than one, as in kaksi ... (two ...)?
  12. What is consonant gradation, as seen in kukka (flower) and kukan (of the flower)?
  13. What does vowel harmony mean in Finnish?
  14. How is negation expressed in Finnish?
  15. Which metre is the Kalevala poetry written in?
  16. Which poet wrote the words of Maamme (VĂ„rt land), later the national anthem of Finland?
  17. Which author created the Moomins, writing mainly in Swedish?
  18. Which playwright and women's rights advocate wrote Työmiehen vaimo (The Worker's Wife) in the 1880s?
  19. Which novel by Sofi Oksanen deals with Estonia under Soviet rule and was published in 2008?
  20. Which term describes the Finnish idea of determination and grit in the face of difficulty?
  21. Which of these words has been borrowed into many languages from Finnish?
  22. What does the genitive case express in Finnish, as in talon (of the house)?
  23. How many grammatical cases does Finnish have in the standard description?
  24. Which sentence correctly uses the translative case, with the meaning she is studying to become a teacher?
  25. What is the Kanteletar, published by Elias Lönnrot in 1840?
  26. Which trilogy by VÀinö Linna follows a family of tenant farmers from the 1880s to the 1950s?
  27. What does the ending -ni mean in the word kirjani?
  28. In what way does the Kalevala differ from a typical novel such as SeitsemÀn veljestÀ?
  29. Why was the publication of the Kalevala important for Finnish national identity in the nineteenth century?
  30. How does VÀinö Linna's Tuntematon sotilas differ from earlier war narratives?
  31. Which analysis fits Aleksis Kivi's Seven Brothers?
  32. Which pair of words shows the difference between the illative and the elative?
  33. Which case is used for the object of an ongoing, unfinished action, as in Luen kirjaa (I am reading a book)?
  34. Which feature makes Finnish an agglutinative language?
  35. What is the effect of the Finnish Language Decree of 1863 under Emperor Alexander II?
  36. Which pair correctly matches an author and a major work?

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