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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 217-223.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Zurrjir?
(a) The woman's father.
(b) The complete gentleman.
(c) The drinkard's son.
(d) Skull's brother.

2. What does the drinkard change himself into to follow the complete gentleman?
(a) A woman.
(b) A lizard.
(c) A bullfrog.
(d) A butterfly.

3. Why does the drinkard cut down a tree when he and his wife reach the river?
(a) He carves it into a paddle.
(b) He carves it into a boat.
(c) He carves it into weapons.
(d) He makes his wife a wooden doll.

4. What is true about the "highway men"?
(a) They come in gangs.
(b) They are very short.
(c) They charge tolls.
(d) They are all red.

5. What does the protagonist do when he finds the tapster dead?
(a) He sobs for three days.
(b) He climbs a palm tree to tap palm-wine.
(c) He runs away in fear.
(d) He brings the body back to town to bury it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Skull make the woman sit on?

2. Why does the drinkard cry when he first sees the complete gentleman?

3. How long ago did the tapster leave the town where the drinkard thought he'd find him?

4. The protagonist's siblings were all hard workers, but the protagonist was ____________________.

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

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