The Palm-wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-wine Tapster in the Dead's Town Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The Palm-wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-wine Tapster in the Dead's Town Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are the people like in Wraith-Island?
(a) Always busy.
(b) Very nice and loving.
(c) Very violent and mean.
(d) Very talkative.

3. Why won't the people of Wraith Island leave with the drinkard and his wife?
(a) It is prohibited for them to cross their border.
(b) They are too weak too travel.
(c) They do not like the drinkard and his wife.
(d) They have a festival coming up.

4. Why does the protagonist leave his town?
(a) He follows the woman he wants to marry.
(b) He leaves in search of the dead tapster.
(c) There is a famine and he is hungry.
(d) He is exiled by his family.

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

6. How long ago did the tapster leave the town where the drinkard thought he'd find him?
(a) 10 years ago.
(b) 10 hours ago.
(c) 2 days ago.
(d) 2 years ago.

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

8. Why does the drinkard turn himself into a bird?
(a) It was an accident.
(b) So he can disguise himself.
(c) So he can fly over dangerous roads.
(d) Because his wife was also turned into a bird.

9. What does Skull make the woman sit on?
(a) A stool.
(b) A bullfrog.
(c) A rotting log.
(d) A mushroom.

10. Which god does the king make the drinkard meet?
(a) God of War.
(b) God of Travel.
(c) God of Fertility.
(d) God of Wine.

11. The "half-bodied baby" commands his mother to _________.
(a) Carry him on her shoulders.
(b) Carry him on her back.
(c) Carry him on her head.
(d) Carry him in her arms.

12. What does the woman witness as she follows the "complete" gentleman into the forest?
(a) A family of skeletons pays him to "lend them a hand."
(b) The complete gentleman returns his body parts to the owner he had rented them from.
(c) A curious creature kidnaps the complete gentleman.
(d) The complete gentleman shrinks into a tiny complete gentleman.

13. What does the drinkard turn himself into after they get to the river and cut down a tree?
(a) A truck.
(b) A ferry.
(c) A train.
(d) A wheel.

14. 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.

15. What happens when the drinkard and his wife do finally talk to the king?
(a) The drinkard's wife cries.
(b) The king sentences them to death.
(c) They find themselves speaking a different language.
(d) Everyone begins to laugh.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the woman's thumb?

2. Who figures out how to help the woman eat and speak again?

3. How is the bush described that the drinkard and his wife next travel through?

4. Who does the woman marry?

5. What did Zurrjir love to do?

(see the answer keys)

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