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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 Faithful-Mother NOT give the drinkard and his wife when they leave?
(a) A cutlass.
(b) A map.
(c) A gun and ammunition.
(d) Cigarettes.

2. Who figures out how to help the woman eat and speak again?
(a) The drinkard.
(b) Zurrjir.
(c) Her father.
(d) The complete gentleman.

3. Which description is NOT true about "half-bodied baby"?
(a) He is getting heavier.
(b) He never sleeps.
(c) He is growing long hair.
(d) He is always hungry.

4. Who do the townspeople want to exile?
(a) Zurrjir.
(b) The drinkard.
(c) The woman.
(d) The complete gentleman.

5. How does the king try to make the drinkard and his wife talk?
(a) He has them tickled.
(b) He has their heads shaved.
(c) He has them dumped in water.
(d) He has them stabbed with a stick.

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. What happens to the woman's thumb?

3. While living in Wraith Island, what is the drinkard's profession?

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

5. Why won't the people of Wraith Island leave with the drinkard and his wife?

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