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Language, Epic and Literature

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  1. To which language family does Estonian belong?
  2. Which statement about Estonian nouns is correct?
  3. How many grammatical cases does Estonian have in its standard description?
  4. Which of these letters is a special letter of the Estonian alphabet?
  5. Who compiled the national epic Kalevipoeg?
  6. Which novel by A. H. Tammsaare is regarded as a high point of Estonian literature?
  7. On which date is Mother Tongue Day celebrated in Estonia?
  8. Who wrote the school story Kevade (Spring), about the boys Arno and Toots?
  9. What is the traditional Estonian folk song tradition, with alliteration and a repeated metre, called?
  10. Which case does the word majas show, in the sentence Ma olen majas (I am in the house)?
  11. Which sentence correctly expresses that she became a doctor?
  12. Which ending forms the comitative case, meaning with, in a word such as sõbraga (with a friend)?
  13. Which feature does Estonian share with Finnish but not with most Indo-European languages?
  14. Which difference separates Estonian from Finnish?
  15. What is meant by the three degrees of quantity in Estonian?
  16. Who was Johannes Aavik, a person linked to the history of the Estonian language?
  17. Who wrote the words of Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm, the Estonian national anthem?
  18. Which author wrote Mahtra sõda (The Mahtra War), a novel about a peasant uprising in 1858?
  19. Which Estonian author wrote the novel The Czar's Madman, set in the nineteenth century?
  20. Which author wrote The Man Who Spoke Snakish (Rehepapp), a fantasy novel set in an Estonian forest in the past?
  21. Which group of poets from 1917 is known for expressive, sensual poems and counted Marie Under among its members?
  22. Which Estonian poet wrote the poem Kuu (The Moon) and is regarded as the first poet in Estonian in the modern sense?
  23. Which dialect groups does Estonian have?
  24. How can the future be expressed in Estonian, a language without a separate future tense?
  25. What is the difference between Ma ostan raamatu and Ma ostan raamatut?
  26. Why did the publication of Kalevipoeg matter for the Estonian national movement?
  27. How does Tõde ja õigus treat its main theme?
  28. Why was the song Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm important in the national awakening?
  29. Which sentence correctly says on the table in Estonian?
  30. How does Estonian express possession, as in I have a book?
  31. Why are the Estonian regilaul songs important for the study of the language?
  32. What role did the Estonian Literary Society and the newspaper Postimees play in the nineteenth century?
  33. Which Estonian word means thank you?
  34. Who was Lydia Koidula, a figure of the nineteenth-century national awakening?
  35. Which letters appear only in foreign words and names in Estonian?
  36. Which form is the dictionary form, the ma-infinitive, of the Estonian verb meaning to learn?

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