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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT true about the market's owner?
(a) He has no foot.
(b) He jumps instead of walks.
(c) His head is small like a baby's.
(d) He has a strange moustache.

2. Who is Zurrjir?
(a) The drinkard's son.
(b) Skull's brother.
(c) The complete gentleman.
(d) The woman's father.

3. What does the drinkard turn himself into to escape the creatures in "No road--out to travel from bust to bush to the Dead's town"?
(a) Ice.
(b) A fire.
(c) Hot water.
(d) A tornado.

4. Why does the man with eyes in back of his knees chase the drinkard and his wife?
(a) They stole his cowrie, which had fallen on the ground.
(b) They knew each other from the drinkard's home town.
(c) They made fun of his odd body.
(d) They took a cola from the image of a basket.

5. What happens when the woman gets off the bullfrog?
(a) She disappears.
(b) The cowrie starts screaming.
(c) Her necklace breaks.
(d) Her scarf starts to choke her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the houses in "Unreturnable-Heaven's Town" like?

2. What does the Termite House look like?

3. What are the people of "Unreturnable-Heaven's Town" like?

4. As a child, what was the only type of money used in the protagonist's town?

5. What does the king command his attendants to do to the drinkard and his wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. There is a common saying, "like father like son." How is this true in respect to the drinkard and his son Zurrjir?

2. Describe the palm-wine drinkard's relationship with his friends at the beginning of the story.

3. In "Three Good Creatures Took Over Our Trouble," how do the drinkard and his wife make money? What might this say about their characters?

4. How do the drinkard and his wife eventually escape from the white creatures?

5. Describe Death and his house.

6. Describe the drinkard's reaction when he saves the woman from Skull, brings her home, but then cannot get the cowrie off her neck, which prevents her from speaking and eating. Why is this significant?

7. What kind of story is this? How is it told?

8. Do the drinkard and his wife enjoy staying on Wraith-Island? Why or why not?

9. Who is "Faithful-Mother"? What is her responsibility?

10. How is the "bush" personified in "Not Too Small to be Chosen"?

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