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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 cries tears of joy because the complete gentleman is a long lost friend.
(c) He is jealous of the complete gentleman's beauty.
(d) He is jealous that the complete gentleman has palm-wine.

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

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

4. What does the woman's father finally tell the drinkard?
(a) That he can marry the woman.
(b) Where he can find the tapster.
(c) Who died in the fire.
(d) That he is also the drinkard's father.

5. Where is Death when the drinkard reaches his house?
(a) By the river.
(b) In his house.
(c) On the roof.
(d) In his yam garden.

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

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

8. 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.

9. Who figures out how to help the woman eat and speak again?
(a) The drinkard.
(b) Her father.
(c) The complete gentleman.
(d) Zurrjir.

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

11. Before entering the white tree, what do the drinkard and his wife do?
(a) They kill a creature because they are hungry.
(b) They dance by a fire for thirteen days.
(c) They gather leaves to make medicine.
(d) They sell their deaths and loan out their fears.

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

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

14. Who is the terrible animal?
(a) The drinkard's son reincarnated.
(b) The tapster in form of a beast.
(c) Someone the drinkard has sentenced in court.
(d) The owner of the land where the drinkard has planted his crops.

15. What does the woman witness as she follows the "complete" gentleman into the forest?
(a) The complete gentleman shrinks into a tiny complete gentleman.
(b) A curious creature kidnaps the complete gentleman.
(c) The complete gentleman returns his body parts to the owner he had rented them from.
(d) A family of skeletons pays him to "lend them a hand."

Short Answer Questions

1. About how much does "half-bodied baby" weight by the time the drinkard starts carrying him?

2. Which description is NOT true about "half-bodied baby"?

3. Whom does the drinkard and his wife meet personally the night, after meeting the king?

4. The "half-bodied baby" commands his mother to _________.

5. What does the drinkard light on fire?

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