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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 274-285.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must you do to make the tapster's gift to the drinkard work?
(a) You insert a key.
(b) You heat it up.
(c) You put it in water.
(d) You shake it before use.

2. How is the drinkard supposed to walk in "Dead's Town"?
(a) Quickly.
(b) On his tiptoes.
(c) Slowly.
(d) Backwards.

3. How do the attendants complete the task the king assigns them, regarding the drinkard and his wife?
(a) By hand delivering an invitation.
(b) By threatening them with a stick.
(c) With a flat stone and broken bottle.
(d) By kidnapping them and leaving them in a valley far away.

4. What does this character do in return for being forgotten by the king?
(a) He clears the field himself to get some attention.
(b) He leaves Wraith Island.
(c) He goes staight to the king to complain.
(d) He undoes all the work everyone else had done in the field.

5. Who figures out how to help the drinkard heal more quickly after he is beat up by the giant?
(a) The tapster.
(b) His wife.
(c) The giant.
(d) Faithful-Mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the tapster say he did the night he died?

2. When does "half-bodied baby" finally come down from the drinkard?

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

4. What was the tapster called before he died?

5. After meeting Drums, Song, and Dance, what does the drinkard do for five days?

(see the answer key)

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