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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the drinkard and his wife stay by the river for a whole month?
(a) They are making and saving up money.
(b) They are under a spell.
(c) They have good friends.
(d) They are waiting for the rainy season to end.

2. How does the drinkard get his thirst quenched?
(a) He finds a palm forest.
(b) He is given a small bottomless bottle.
(c) He is given a new tapster.
(d) He starts drinking water.

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

4. 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 kidnapping them and leaving them in a valley far away.
(c) With a flat stone and broken bottle.
(d) By hand delivering an invitation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the creatures do when the drinkard transforms himself in "No road--out to travel from bust to bush to the Dead's town"?

2. Before entering the white tree, what do the drinkard and his wife do?

3. What happens when the woman gets off the bullfrog?

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

5. When his parents do not listen to him, "half-bodied baby" commands that they _________.

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