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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What happens when the drinkard brings Death to the old man (a god)?
(a) The old man and his wife run away in fear.
(b) Death kills everyone in the town.
(c) The old man tells the drinkard where the tapster is.
(d) The old man and his wife both die.

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

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

6. How does the king try to make the drinkard and his wife talk?
(a) He has them dumped in water.
(b) He has them tickled.
(c) He has their heads shaved.
(d) He has them stabbed with a stick.

7. What does wife forget in the ashes?
(a) Her gold trinket.
(b) A photo album.
(c) Her ring.
(d) Her silver pendant.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. What is NOT true about "Spirit of Prey"?
(a) He walks on four legs.
(b) He is as big as a hippopotamus.
(c) He has a head like a lion's.
(d) He has hard scales covering his body.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the attendants complete the task the king assigns them, regarding the drinkard and his wife?

2. What are the people of "Unreturnable-Heaven's Town" like?

3. Who is inside the white tree?

4. What are the houses in "Unreturnable-Heaven's Town" like?

5. What does the drinkard light on fire?

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