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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 230-248.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the terrible animal mad?
(a) The drinkard shot him accidentally.
(b) The drinkard has sentenced him to death.
(c) The drinkard has not sacrificed to him.
(d) The drinkard killed him in another life.

2. What is true about the "highway men"?
(a) They come in gangs.
(b) They are all red.
(c) They are very short.
(d) They charge tolls.

3. Why do the attendants bring an eagle?
(a) To take out the eyes of the drinkard and his wife.
(b) To kill it and eat it.
(c) Because it sings a special song.
(d) To ride on it to the next town.

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

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"?
(a) They get closer to get warm.
(b) They laugh.
(c) They run away in fear.
(d) They touch him.

Short Answer Questions

1. While living in Wraith Island, what is the drinkard's profession?

2. What happens to the woman's thumb?

3. What are the people of "Unreturnable-Heaven's Town" like?

4. When does "half-bodied baby" finally come down from the drinkard?

5. What "right thing" does the old man (a god) want the drinkard to bring back from the black-smith?

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