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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. In "The Hodja and the Cauldron," why does Hodja say he can't return the original item?
(a) It had a baby.
(b) It broke.
(c) He lost it.
(d) It decided to live with him.

2. In "Glooscap and the Baby," how old is Wasis?
(a) An old man.
(b) A teenager.
(c) A baby.
(d) A middle-aged man.

3. What is "The Fly" about?
(a) Forgiving debt.
(b) Plants.
(c) Insects.
(d) Death.

4. How does the woman in "The Brewery of Eggshells," discover the child is not hers?
(a) She poaches eggs.
(b) She paints eggshells.
(c) She makes an omelette.
(d) She brews eggshells.

5. What do the pickpockets in "The Two Pickpockets" hope their children become?
(a) Doctors.
(b) Circus clowns.
(c) Pickpockets.
(d) Acrobats.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the king give to the boy in "The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs"?

2. Where does Quevedo grab the king in "Quevedo and the King"?

3. What must the servant in "Helping to Lie'" help his master do?

4. Why does the man return to marry the girl at the end of "The Three Sillies"'?

5. In "The Man Who Had No Story," what does the elderly couple ask Brian to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the prophecy in "The Birth of Finn MacCumhail."

2. In "The Hodja and the Cauldron," how does the Hodja manage to keep the cauldron?

3. Describe how men and women came together in "How Men and Women Got Together."

4. Why does the Hodja walk out of the service the first time in "Nars-ed-Din Hodja in the Pulpit "?

5. Why does "The King's Favorite" fall from grace?

6. In the story "The Waiting Maid's Parrot," how does the young boy find the buried girl?

7. What did the infant child in "The Two Pickpockets" steal from the midwife?

8. What makes the poet in "Wagging My Tail in the Mud" truly happy?

9. Why does the rich man in "Lazy Jack" give his daughter to Jack in marriage?

10. Whom does the imp possess in "The Brewery of Eggshells"?

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