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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the drinkard light on fire?
(a) The town hall.
(b) Skull's hole.
(c) A palm-wine tree.
(d) The building where Zurrjir sleeps.

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

3. 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 has four hands.
(d) He is six feet in diameter.

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

5. Why do the drinkard and his wife stay by the river for a whole month?
(a) They are waiting for the rainy season to end.
(b) They have good friends.
(c) They are under a spell.
(d) They are making and saving up money.

6. Why is the terrible animal mad?
(a) The drinkard shot him accidentally.
(b) The drinkard has not sacrificed to him.
(c) The drinkard has sentenced him to death.
(d) The drinkard killed him in another life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who figures out how to help the woman eat and speak again?

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

3. What does Skull make the woman sit on?

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

5. The protagonist's siblings were all hard workers, but the protagonist was ____________________.

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