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

2. What is the prophecy in "The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs"?
(a) The girl will murder the king.
(b) The boy will marry the queen.
(c) The boy will marry the princess.
(d) The girl will marry the queen.

3. In "The Prayer that was Answered," what happens to the dishonest man?
(a) He is eaten by a tiger.
(b) He is shot.
(c) He is eaten by a bear.
(d) He lives forever.

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

5. Who comes to the bride's rescue in the story "The Prayer that was Answered"'?
(a) The mayor.
(b) A shepherd.
(c) A chieftan.
(d) A doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many tribes exist at the start of "How Men and Women Got Together"?

2. What does Jack carry home in "Lazy Jack"?

3. Where did "Father of Eighteen Elves" originate?

4. In "The Hodja and the Cauldron," why does Hodja say he can't return the original item?

5. Jack causes a deaf girl to laugh in "Lazy Jack." What is his reward?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why do the townspeople in "Chelm Justice" not want to hang the shoe mender?

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

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

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

7. 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?

8. How does the young boy trick the king in "The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs"?

9. What is wrong with Mr. Fox in the story "Mr. Fox"?

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

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