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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 248-264.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the woman's father finally tell the drinkard?
(a) That he is also the drinkard's father.
(b) That he can marry the woman.
(c) Who died in the fire.
(d) Where he can find the tapster.

2. While living in Wraith Island, what is the drinkard's profession?
(a) Farmer.
(b) Tapster.
(c) Judge.
(d) Doctor.

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

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

5. What happens when the drinkard and his wife do finally talk to the king?
(a) The drinkard's wife cries.
(b) The king sentences them to death.
(c) They find themselves speaking a different language.
(d) Everyone begins to laugh.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the drinkard cut down a tree when he and his wife reach the river?

2. The "half-bodied baby" commands his mother to _________.

3. Who is the king of the Red-Bush related to?

4. What does the drinkard change himself into as he and the woman escape from Skull?

5. About how much does "half-bodied baby" weight by the time the drinkard starts carrying him?

(see the answer key)

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