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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 265-274.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Skull live?
(a) Under a big rock.
(b) Inside a rotting log.
(c) In a hole.
(d) In the side of a hill.

2. What happens when the drinkard offers the "Invisible-Pawn" yams and corn as thanks for his work?
(a) "Invisible-Pawn" eats all the crops in town.
(b) "Invisible-Pawn" only eats yams.
(c) "Invisible-Pawn" only eats corn.
(d) "Invisible-Pawn" refuses the offer.

3. What does the terrible animal give the drinkard?
(a) A heavy weapon.
(b) Poisonous fruit.
(c) Magic seeds.
(d) A book.

4. What does "Zurrjir" mean?
(a) Father of gods who could do everthing in the world.
(b) A son who would change himself into another thing soon.
(c) Insatiable appetite.
(d) Born from a thumb.

5. Zurrjir is described as a "wonderful" child because ________.
(a) He helps out in the kitchen.
(b) If one hundred men tried to fight him, he is so strong he would just flog them away.
(c) He has the special power to creat palm-wine out of water.
(d) If there were a famine, he would travel miles to find and bring back food for his family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "Invisible-Pawn's" name?

2. How do the attendants complete the task the king assigns them, regarding the drinkard and his wife?

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"?

4. After meeting Drums, Song, and Dance, what does the drinkard do for five days?

5. How does the drinkard get his thirst quenched?

(see the answer key)

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