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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 happens in "Being Greedy Chokes Anansi" when the forbidden word is spoken?
(a) Choking.
(b) The crops die.
(c) Death.
(d) Your tongue falls out.

2. How is the child in "The Two Pickpockets" deformed?
(a) He has a cleft lip.
(b) His hand is curled tight.
(c) He has no eyelids.
(d) He has eleven toes.

3. In "The Three Sillies," what does the maiden weep over in the basement?
(a) A mallet.
(b) A screwdriver.
(c) A dying bird.
(d) A broken heart.

4. In "Quevedo and the King," why is the king upset with Quevedo?
(a) Quevedo plots to kill the king.
(b) Quevedo is lazy.
(c) Quevedo plays pranks.
(d) Quevedo kisses the queen.

5. In "Being Greedy Chokes Anansi" what other role does the queen play?
(a) She is a seamstress.
(b) She is a witch.
(c) She is a knight.
(d) She is a poet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did "The King's Favorite" originate?

2. Whose house does the girl in "The Little Old Woman with Five Cows" accidentally visit?

3. Where did "The Man Who Had No Story" originate?

4. What does Ansai ask people to count in "Being Greedy Chokes Anansi"?

5. What happens to the three year old child in "Father of Eighteen Elves" when his mother returns?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the man put in his trunk in "The Prayer that was Answered"? What does he discover in his trunk when he arrives home?

2. How does the "The Man Who Had No Story" get a story?

3. How are the sea creatures created in "Sedna"?

4. What does the town do in "Li Chi Slays the Serpent" to repay the girl for slaying the serpent?

5. Who marries the princess in "Crack and Crook"? Why?

6. Why is no one in "Being Greedy Chokes Anansi" allowed to say the word five?

7. In "Glooscap and the Baby" how does the baby defeat Glooscap?

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

9. How does the hare anger the other animals in "Why the Hare Runs Away"?

10. What does the servant tell his lord at the end of "Helping to Lie"?

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