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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 223-230.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT true about the terrible animal?
(a) He has long red hair.
(b) His fingernails are about two feet long.
(c) He has teeth as thick as cow horns.
(d) He is as big as an elephant.

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. 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) He helps out in the kitchen.
(c) If one hundred men tried to fight him, he is so strong he would just flog them away.
(d) He has the special power to creat palm-wine out of water.

4. About how much does "half-bodied baby" weight by the time the drinkard starts carrying him?
(a) 280 lbs.
(b) 28 lbs.
(c) 2,800 lbs.
(d) 2.8lbs.

5. What does the drinkard change the woman into as they escape from Skull?
(a) A tiny kitten.
(b) A sparrow-like bird.
(c) A lizard.
(d) A bullfrog.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the drinkard use to transform himself to escape the creatures, in "No road--out to travel from bust to bush to the Dead's town"?

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

3. What is NOT true about the "complete" gentleman?

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

5. What do the creatures do when the drinkard transforms himself in "No road--out to travel from bust to bush to the Dead's town"?

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