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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 does wife forget in the ashes?
(a) A photo album.
(b) Her silver pendant.
(c) Her ring.
(d) Her gold trinket.

2. Why do the drinkard and his wife stay by the river for a whole month?
(a) They are making and saving up money.
(b) They are waiting for the rainy season to end.
(c) They have good friends.
(d) They are under a spell.

3. What does the protagonist bring with him on his journey?
(a) Palm-wine.
(b) A sack of money.
(c) A magic stone.
(d) Juju.

4. How long ago did the tapster leave the town where the drinkard thought he'd find him?
(a) 10 hours ago.
(b) 10 years ago.
(c) 2 days ago.
(d) 2 years ago.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Skull live?

2. Which description is NOT true about "half-bodied baby"?

3. What is the bed in Death's house made of?

4. What does the drinkard light on fire?

5. What does the drinkard change himself into as he and the woman escape from Skull?

(see the answer key)

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