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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 specific creature the drinkard describes in "No road--out to travel from bust to bush to the Dead's town"?
(a) He has one eye.
(b) He is a quarter of a mile long
(c) He is six feet in diameter.
(d) He has four hands.

2. 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.

3. What is the drinkard's financial situation when he meets Drums, Song, and Dance?
(a) He is penniless.
(b) He is financially stable.
(c) It is not specified.
(d) He is very rich.

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

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

6. Whom does the drinkard and his wife meet personally the night, after meeting the king?
(a) Snort.
(b) Laugh.
(c) Talk.
(d) Dance.

7. What does the drinkard change himself into to follow the complete gentleman?
(a) A butterfly.
(b) A lizard.
(c) A bullfrog.
(d) A woman.

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

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

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

11. What happens when the woman gets off the bullfrog?
(a) Her necklace breaks.
(b) The cowrie starts screaming.
(c) She disappears.
(d) Her scarf starts to choke her.

12. While living in Wraith Island, what is the drinkard's profession?
(a) Judge.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Tapster.
(d) Farmer.

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

14. What does this character do in return for being forgotten by the king?
(a) He clears the field himself to get some attention.
(b) He goes staight to the king to complain.
(c) He leaves Wraith Island.
(d) He undoes all the work everyone else had done in the field.

15. Who is Zurrjir?
(a) The woman's father.
(b) The drinkard's son.
(c) Skull's brother.
(d) The complete gentleman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the people like in Wraith-Island?

2. What is NOT true about the "complete" gentleman?

3. What "right thing" does the old man (a god) want the drinkard to bring back from the black-smith?

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

5. What does the protagonist bring with him on his journey?

(see the answer keys)

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