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 won't "half-bodied baby" let his parents do?
(a) Eat or laugh.
(b) Eat or sleep.
(c) Talk or laugh.
(d) Talk or sleep.

2. In the second town where the drinkard goes, a man says he will tell the drinkard where the tapster is if he ______.
(a) Kills the curious creature who killed his crops.
(b) Returns the man's daughter who was captured by a curious creature.
(c) Goes to the market and learn how to become a "complete" gentleman.
(d) Marries the man's daughter.

3. What color are the creatures the drinkard meets in "No road--out to travel from bust to bush to the Dead's town"?
(a) Green.
(b) Yellow.
(c) White.
(d) Red.

4. What is NOT true about the "complete" gentleman?
(a) He could be sold for at least two thousand pounds.
(b) He wears expensive clothes.
(c) He is beautiful.
(d) He is short.

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

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

7. 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.

8. About how much does "half-bodied baby" weight by the time the drinkard starts carrying him?
(a) 2.8lbs.
(b) 28 lbs.
(c) 2,800 lbs.
(d) 280 lbs.

9. Why does the drinkard cry when he first sees the complete gentleman?
(a) He is upset that the complete gentleman was holding a woman captive.
(b) He is jealous of the complete gentleman's beauty.
(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.

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

11. Who does the woman marry?
(a) The drinkard.
(b) Skull.
(c) Zurrjir.
(d) The complete gentleman.

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

13. 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) Born from a thumb.
(d) Insatiable appetite.

14. What are the people of "Unreturnable-Heaven's Town" like?
(a) They all have three eyes.
(b) They do things backwards and incorrectly.
(c) They are sweet and pleasant.
(d) They are well versed in philosophy.

15. How do the drinkard and his wife escape the people of "Unreturnable-Heaven's Town"?
(a) They burn down the town.
(b) They create a flood with their juju.
(c) They sneak away at night
(d) They fly away on the eagle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the drinkard and his wife stay by the river for a whole month?

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

3. Where is Death when the drinkard reaches his house?

4. What happens when the woman gets off the bullfrog?

5. What does the protagonist do when he finds the tapster dead?

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