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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT true about the market's owner?
(a) He jumps instead of walks.
(b) His head is small like a baby's.
(c) He has a strange moustache.
(d) He has no foot.

2. Why does the drinkard cry when he first sees the complete gentleman?
(a) He is jealous of the complete gentleman's beauty.
(b) He is upset that the complete gentleman was holding a woman captive.
(c) He cries tears of joy because the complete gentleman is a long lost friend.
(d) He is jealous that the complete gentleman has palm-wine.

3. To complete his first challenge, what does the drinkard turn himself into?
(a) A dog.
(b) A lizard.
(c) A frog.
(d) A bird.

4. What does the woman, who is held captive by Skull, have around her neck?
(a) A cowrie.
(b) Some juju.
(c) A scarf.
(d) A necklace.

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

6. What does the protagonist do when he finds the tapster dead?
(a) He climbs a palm tree to tap palm-wine.
(b) He brings the body back to town to bury it.
(c) He runs away in fear.
(d) He sobs for three days.

7. What is the Termite House actually?
(a) An ant farm.
(b) A market.
(c) A tree trunk.
(d) A library.

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

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

10. What was notable about the the protagonist's father?
(a) His father lived to be 106 years old.
(b) His father had 13 children.
(c) His father had one leg.
(d) His father was the richest man in their town.

11. How do the attendants complete the task the king assigns them, regarding the drinkard and his wife?
(a) By hand delivering an invitation.
(b) By threatening them with a stick.
(c) By kidnapping them and leaving them in a valley far away.
(d) With a flat stone and broken bottle.

12. Who dies in the fire that the drinkard starts?
(a) The woman's father.
(b) The complete gentleman.
(c) Skull.
(d) The drinkard's son.

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

14. What must happen so the woman can eat and speak again?
(a) She must consume more juju.
(b) The necklace must be put back together.
(c) The cowrie must be removed from her neck.
(d) The scarf must be dyed red.

15. What are the houses in "Unreturnable-Heaven's Town" like?
(a) They are thatched with grass.
(b) They are three stories.
(c) They are underground.
(d) They have one room.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the drinkard and his wife escape the people of "Unreturnable-Heaven's Town"?

2. Where does the "half-bodied baby" appear?

3. What color are the creatures the drinkard meets in "No road--out to travel from bust to bush to the Dead's town"?

4. What happens when the children of "Unreturnable-Heaven's Town" try to nail the heads of the drinkard and his wife?

5. How does the king try to make the drinkard and his wife talk?

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