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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does the king of Wraith Island forget to chose to help clear the fields?
(a) His cousin.
(b) A transparent spirit.
(c) An witch.
(d) A tiny creature.

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

4. What is the bed in Death's house made of?
(a) Straw.
(b) Human bones.
(c) Human hair.
(d) Stones.

5. Who gave the drinkard the juju he uses to turn himself into a large bird?
(a) Spirit of Prey.
(b) His father.
(c) A ghost.
(d) Water Spirt Woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the king command his attendants to do to the drinkard and his wife?

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

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

4. Where does Skull live?

5. Who does the woman marry?

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