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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Zurrjir love to do?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Talk.
(c) Eat.
(d) Drink.

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

4. What is NOT true about the terrible animal?
(a) His fingernails are about two feet long.
(b) He has long red hair.
(c) He has teeth as thick as cow horns.
(d) He is as big as an elephant.

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

6. After meeting Drums, Song, and Dance, what does the drinkard do for five days?
(a) He pays the tambourine.
(b) He dances.
(c) He sleeps.
(d) He eats.

7. As a child, what was the only type of money used in the protagonist's town?
(a) Pounds.
(b) Dollars.
(c) Cowries.
(d) Soles.

8. Why does the man with eyes in back of his knees chase the drinkard and his wife?
(a) They made fun of his odd body.
(b) They took a cola from the image of a basket.
(c) They knew each other from the drinkard's home town.
(d) They stole his cowrie, which had fallen on the ground.

9. What happens to the woman's thumb?
(a) It turns green.
(b) It shrivels into a raisin.
(c) It is cut off by Skull.
(d) It swells up and a baby is born from it.

10. 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 is six feet in diameter.
(b) He has one eye.
(c) He has four hands.
(d) He is a quarter of a mile long

11. Why does the drinkard cut down a tree when he and his wife reach the river?
(a) He carves it into weapons.
(b) He carves it into a boat.
(c) He makes his wife a wooden doll.
(d) He carves it into a paddle.

12. The protagonist's siblings were all hard workers, but the protagonist was ____________________.
(a) Too young to help with work.
(b) Bedridden from a rare disease.
(c) Occupied with drinking palm-wine.
(d) A hermit who read books all day.

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

14. What is the protagonist's name?
(a) His name is unknown.
(b) Zurrjir
(c) God of Palm-Wine.
(d) Father of the gods who could do everything in this world.

15. Which description is NOT true about "half-bodied baby"?
(a) He is always hungry.
(b) He never sleeps.
(c) He is getting heavier.
(d) He is growing long hair.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. While living in Wraith Island, what is the drinkard's profession?

3. How do the drinkard and his wife end up in the white tree?

4. What is the Termite House actually?

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

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