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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What does the protagonist do when he finds the tapster dead?
(a) He brings the body back to town to bury it.
(b) He runs away in fear.
(c) He climbs a palm tree to tap palm-wine.
(d) He sobs for three days.

3. What does the drinkard turn himself into after they get to the river and cut down a tree?
(a) A wheel.
(b) A train.
(c) A ferry.
(d) A truck.

4. What are the houses in "Unreturnable-Heaven's Town" like?
(a) They have one room.
(b) They are thatched with grass.
(c) They are underground.
(d) They are three stories.

5. What are the people like in Wraith-Island?
(a) Very violent and mean.
(b) Very talkative.
(c) Very nice and loving.
(d) Always busy.

6. What does "Zurrjir" mean?
(a) Born from a thumb.
(b) A son who would change himself into another thing soon.
(c) Insatiable appetite.
(d) Father of gods who could do everthing in the world.

7. What does the drinkard use to transform himself to escape the creatures, in "No road--out to travel from bust to bush to the Dead's town"?
(a) A special leaf.
(b) His father's charm.
(c) Palm-wine.
(d) His juju.

8. Who does the king of Wraith Island forget to chose to help clear the fields?
(a) His cousin.
(b) A transparent spirit.
(c) A tiny creature.
(d) An witch.

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

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

11. Who is inside the white tree?
(a) Faithful-Mother.
(b) Oak Spirit.
(c) The tapster.
(d) A mouse.

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

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

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

15. What "right thing" does the old man (a god) want the drinkard to bring back from the black-smith?
(a) A candlestick.
(b) A bell.
(c) A key.
(d) A tool.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the drinkard light on fire?

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

3. How do the drinkard and his wife escape the people of "Unreturnable-Heaven's Town"?

4. What important question does the king of "Unreturnable-Heaven's Town" ask the drinkard and his wife?

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

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