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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the drinkard cry when he first sees the complete gentleman?
(a) He is upset that the complete gentleman was holding a woman captive.
(b) He is jealous of the complete gentleman's beauty.
(c) He cries tears of joy because the complete gentleman is a long lost friend.
(d) He is jealous that the complete gentleman has palm-wine.

2. Who dies in the fire that the drinkard starts?
(a) Skull.
(b) The woman's father.
(c) The complete gentleman.
(d) The drinkard's son.

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

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

5. What "right thing" does the old man (a god) want the drinkard to bring back from the black-smith?
(a) A bell.
(b) A key.
(c) A tool.
(d) A candlestick.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who figures out how to help the woman eat and speak again?

2. What does Skull make the woman sit on?

3. In the second town where the drinkard goes, a man says he will tell the drinkard where the tapster is if he ______.

4. What does the woman, who is held captive by Skull, have around her neck?

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

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