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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the terrible animal?
(a) Someone the drinkard has sentenced in court.
(b) The owner of the land where the drinkard has planted his crops.
(c) The drinkard's son reincarnated.
(d) The tapster in form of a beast.

3. What happens when the woman gets off the bullfrog?
(a) Her necklace breaks.
(b) The cowrie starts screaming.
(c) Her scarf starts to choke her.
(d) She disappears.

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

5. What is NOT true about the specific creature the drinkard describes in "No road--out to travel from bust to bush to the Dead's town"?
(a) He has one eye.
(b) He is a quarter of a mile long
(c) He is six feet in diameter.
(d) He has four hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which god does the king make the drinkard meet?

2. Where is Death when the drinkard reaches his house?

3. What happens when the drinkard brings Death to the old man (a god)?

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

5. As a child, what was the only type of money used in the protagonist's town?

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