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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who do the townspeople want to exile?
(a) The complete gentleman.
(b) The drinkard.
(c) Zurrjir.
(d) The woman.

2. After meeting Drums, Song, and Dance, what does the drinkard do for five days?
(a) He pays the tambourine.
(b) He sleeps.
(c) He eats.
(d) He dances.

3. When does "half-bodied baby" finally come down from the drinkard?
(a) When he gets a big steak.
(b) When they run into the white creatures.
(c) When he meets Drums, Song, and Dance.
(d) When he want to learn how to walk.

4. What does the old man (a god) give the drinkard to catch Death?
(a) A net.
(b) A black bag.
(c) A spear.
(d) Some garlic.

5. When his parents do not listen to him, "half-bodied baby" commands that they _________.
(a) Be blinded and silenced.
(b) Be unable to eat or breathe.
(c) Be blinded and unable to breathe.
(d) Be silenced and unable to breathe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Zurrjir?

2. Why does the drinkard cry when he first sees the complete gentleman?

3. What does the Termite House look like?

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

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

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