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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the drinkard's hobby in the next town they go to after escaping "Hungry-Monster"?
(a) He takes up gambling again.
(b) He goes to the hospital and observes doctors.
(c) He helps at the post office and delivers important packages.
(d) He attends court and listens to cases.

2. How does the drinkard get his thirst quenched?
(a) He finds a palm forest.
(b) He is given a small bottomless bottle.
(c) He is given a new tapster.
(d) He starts drinking water.

3. How do the red people loose their redness?
(a) The king burns the red tree.
(b) The king dies.
(c) The drinkard kills the red bird and red fish.
(d) The drinkard makes a deal with the wizard.

4. What ultimately happens to the man with the sack?
(a) He is killed.
(b) He escapes town.
(c) He steals the drinkard's wife.
(d) He hides under the statue of the king for the rest of his life.

5. Who puts the drinkard and his wife in the huge bag?
(a) A man.
(b) The red lady.
(c) A goat.
(d) A giant.

6. When the drinkard and his wife are captured and put in a bag, what are the other creatures in the bag like?
(a) Sticky like gum.
(b) Furry and soft.
(c) Smooth as pebbles.
(d) Sharp as sand paper.

7. At the end of the chapter, what does Dance turn into?
(a) A mountain.
(b) A cave.
(c) A valley.
(d) A river.

8. What happens after the drinkard re-gums the broken egg?
(a) The egg only produces palm-wine.
(b) The eggs works good as new.
(c) Nothing, the egg still does not work.
(d) The egg produces one million whips and flogs the ungrateful people.

9. What does the drinkard turn himself into to escape from the "mountain-creatures"?
(a) A flat stone.
(b) A tiny kitten.
(c) A wooden doll.
(d) A small stick.

10. After how long, does Faithful-Mother tell the drinkard and his wife that they must leave?
(a) A year and two months.
(b) Four years.
(c) Two months.
(d) One day.

11. What pastime does the drinkard take up while in the white tree?
(a) Chess playing.
(b) Hunting.
(c) Rock collecting.
(d) Gambling.

12. What "natural disaster" has killed millions of people?
(a) A plague.
(b) A famine.
(c) A blizzard.
(d) A flood.

13. According to the tapster, why do "alives" and "deads" not live together?
(a) Because God prohibits it.
(b) Because it is biologically impossible.
(c) Because there is not enough food.
(d) Because each does things in opposite (and incorrect) ways.

14. How long is the parade requested by the king supposed to last?
(a) 7 hours.
(b) 3 days.
(c) 7 days.
(d) 3 weeks.

15. On the way to Dead's Town, the drinkard and his wife get lost and ask to follow a man with a sack. What is in the sack?
(a) A dead prince.
(b) The tapster.
(c) Nine creepy creatures.
(d) Rice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the tapster do for the drinkard and his wife?

2. On what day after turning red, did everyone in the town die to then settle in the red bush?

3. Who joins the "mountain-creatures" in their favorite activity?

4. What does "Hungry-Monster" cry?

5. What does the tapster say he did the night he died?

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