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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 248-264.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the attendants complete the task the king assigns them, regarding the drinkard and his wife?
(a) By threatening them with a stick.
(b) With a flat stone and broken bottle.
(c) By hand delivering an invitation.
(d) By kidnapping them and leaving them in a valley far away.

2. What is the Termite House actually?
(a) A tree trunk.
(b) An ant farm.
(c) A market.
(d) A library.

3. Zurrjir is described as a "wonderful" child because ________.
(a) He has the special power to creat palm-wine out of water.
(b) If there were a famine, he would travel miles to find and bring back food for his family.
(c) If one hundred men tried to fight him, he is so strong he would just flog them away.
(d) He helps out in the kitchen.

4. What is the drinkard's financial situation when he meets Drums, Song, and Dance?
(a) He is very rich.
(b) He is financially stable.
(c) He is penniless.
(d) It is not specified.

5. What is NOT true about the specific creature the drinkard describes in "No road--out to travel from bust to bush to the Dead's town"?
(a) He has one eye.
(b) He is a quarter of a mile long
(c) He is six feet in diameter.
(d) He has four hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the drinkard change himself into as he and the woman escape from Skull?

2. How is the bush described that the drinkard and his wife next travel through?

3. Who dies in the fire that the drinkard starts?

4. When his parents do not listen to him, "half-bodied baby" commands that they _________.

5. What pastime does the drinkard take up while in the white tree?

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