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

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

3. The "half-bodied baby" commands his mother to _________.
(a) Carry him on her back.
(b) Carry him on her shoulders.
(c) Carry him on her head.
(d) Carry him in her arms.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the woman witness as she follows the "complete" gentleman into the forest?

2. What is true about the "highway men"?

3. Who dies in the fire that the drinkard starts?

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

5. What does the drinkard change himself into to follow the complete gentleman?

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