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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT true about the "complete" gentleman?
(a) He is beautiful.
(b) He wears expensive clothes.
(c) He is short.
(d) He could be sold for at least two thousand pounds.

2. What is the drinkard's financial situation when he meets Drums, Song, and Dance?
(a) It is not specified.
(b) He is financially stable.
(c) He is penniless.
(d) He is very rich.

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

4. What won't "half-bodied baby" let his parents do?
(a) Eat or sleep.
(b) Talk or sleep.
(c) Talk or laugh.
(d) Eat or laugh.

5. Zurrjir is described as a "wonderful" child because ________.
(a) He helps out in the kitchen.
(b) He has the special power to creat palm-wine out of water.
(c) If one hundred men tried to fight him, he is so strong he would just flog them away.
(d) If there were a famine, he would travel miles to find and bring back food for his family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the drinkard turn himself into a bird?

2. What does the protagonist bring with him on his journey?

3. What does the drinkard change the woman into as they escape from Skull?

4. What happens to the woman's thumb?

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

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