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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who is inside the white tree?
(a) Faithful-Mother.
(b) A mouse.
(c) Oak Spirit.
(d) The tapster.
2. Who dies in the fire that the drinkard starts?
(a) The woman's father.
(b) The complete gentleman.
(c) The drinkard's son.
(d) Skull.
3. Who does the king of Wraith Island forget to chose to help clear the fields?
(a) His cousin.
(b) An witch.
(c) A transparent spirit.
(d) A tiny creature.
4. What does the terrible animal give the drinkard?
(a) Magic seeds.
(b) Poisonous fruit.
(c) A heavy weapon.
(d) A book.
5. Who does the woman marry?
(a) Zurrjir.
(b) The drinkard.
(c) Skull.
(d) The complete gentleman.
6. What happens to the woman's thumb?
(a) It turns green.
(b) It swells up and a baby is born from it.
(c) It shrivels into a raisin.
(d) It is cut off by Skull.
7. How do the drinkard and his wife end up in the white tree?
(a) They enter through the back door.
(b) They fall through a hole into another world.
(c) They climb the tree, then fall through a shoot.
(d) The tree's hands grab them and bring them in.
8. Which god does the king make the drinkard meet?
(a) God of Fertility.
(b) God of Travel.
(c) God of War.
(d) God of Wine.
9. What are the people of "Unreturnable-Heaven's Town" like?
(a) They do things backwards and incorrectly.
(b) They are well versed in philosophy.
(c) They all have three eyes.
(d) They are sweet and pleasant.
10. 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) His juju.
(b) His father's charm.
(c) A special leaf.
(d) Palm-wine.
11. Why do the drinkard and his wife stay by the river for a whole month?
(a) They are under a spell.
(b) They have good friends.
(c) They are making and saving up money.
(d) They are waiting for the rainy season to end.
12. Who do the townspeople want to exile?
(a) The drinkard.
(b) The woman.
(c) Zurrjir.
(d) The complete gentleman.
13. Why does the drinkard cut down a tree when he and his wife reach the river?
(a) He carves it into a boat.
(b) He makes his wife a wooden doll.
(c) He carves it into a paddle.
(d) He carves it into weapons.
14. Why does the drinkard cry when he first sees the complete gentleman?
(a) He cries tears of joy because the complete gentleman is a long lost friend.
(b) He is jealous that the complete gentleman has palm-wine.
(c) He is jealous of the complete gentleman's beauty.
(d) He is upset that the complete gentleman was holding a woman captive.
15. What is NOT true about the "complete" gentleman?
(a) He could be sold for at least two thousand pounds.
(b) He wears expensive clothes.
(c) He is short.
(d) He is beautiful.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the protagonist bring with him on his journey?
2. What "right thing" does the old man (a god) want the drinkard to bring back from the black-smith?
3. What must happen so the woman can eat and speak again?
4. In the second town where the drinkard goes, a man says he will tell the drinkard where the tapster is if he ______.
5. What does the drinkard change himself into to follow the complete gentleman?
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