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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 265-274.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ultimately happens to the man with the sack?
(a) He hides under the statue of the king for the rest of his life.
(b) He escapes town.
(c) He steals the drinkard's wife.
(d) He is killed.

2. Why won't the people of Wraith Island leave with the drinkard and his wife?
(a) They are too weak too travel.
(b) It is prohibited for them to cross their border.
(c) They have a festival coming up.
(d) They do not like the drinkard and his wife.

3. What is the protagonist's name?
(a) Zurrjir
(b) God of Palm-Wine.
(c) Father of the gods who could do everything in this world.
(d) His name is unknown.

4. Before entering the white tree, what do the drinkard and his wife do?
(a) They gather leaves to make medicine.
(b) They dance by a fire for thirteen days.
(c) They sell their deaths and loan out their fears.
(d) They kill a creature because they are hungry.

5. Why does the drinkard turn himself into a bird?
(a) It was an accident.
(b) Because his wife was also turned into a bird.
(c) So he can fly over dangerous roads.
(d) So he can disguise himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Faithful-Mother NOT give the drinkard and his wife when they leave?

2. What does "Zurrjir" mean?

3. What do the creatures do when the drinkard transforms himself in "No road--out to travel from bust to bush to the Dead's town"?

4. What does the drinkard light on fire?

5. What does Skull make the woman sit on?

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