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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much palm-wine does the drinkard consume with his friends when he first returns home?
(a) 2 kegs.
(b) 200 kegs.
(c) 2 million kegs.
(d) 2 glasses each.

2. What does the tapster do for the drinkard and his wife?
(a) He gets them a ride to their home town.
(b) He builds a hut for them outside of "Dead's Town."
(c) He finds them a new tapster.
(d) He convinces the head of "Dead's Town" to let them stay.

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

4. 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) Nine creepy creatures.
(b) A dead prince.
(c) Rice.
(d) The tapster.

5. What happens when the husband from case #2 comes back to life?
(a) The husband has to sacrifice one of his wives to the gods.
(b) The wizard wants to hire one of the wives as his assistant.
(c) The husband decides he can only have one wife.
(d) The wizard wants to marry one of his wives.

6. Why is it so hard for the drinkard and his wife to reach and enter "Dead's Town"?
(a) There is a labyrinth they need to get through.
(b) They do not have the special key.
(c) They cannot enter during the day since they are alive.
(d) There is an optical illusion.

7. What does Faithful-Mother NOT give the drinkard and his wife when they leave?
(a) A gun and ammunition.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) A cutlass.
(d) A map.

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

9. Who is "Invisible-Pawn"?
(a) The drinkard's son.
(b) Skull.
(c) The head of the bush creatures.
(d) The tapster.

10. What does the man do on the morning of the seventh day of the parade?
(a) He admits he is the real murderer.
(b) He kidnaps the king.
(c) He kills the drinkard and his wife.
(d) He runs away from town.

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

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

13. What was in the center of the white tree?
(a) A large dance hall.
(b) A park.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) A hospital.

14. Why do the drinkard and his wife leave the town?
(a) "Invisible-Pawn" kills all the natives and now they are the only ones left in the town.
(b) They are scared of "Invisible-Pawn."
(c) They are scared of a revolt.
(d) It is just time to move on.

15. Why does the man they are following make the drinkard and his wife carry his sack?
(a) It is too heavy for him.
(b) They owe him a favor from many years ago.
(c) He is trying to blackmail them.
(d) He doesn't; they offer to help him.

Short Answer Questions

1. When can "alives" enter Dead's Town.

2. How is the drinkard supposed to walk in "Dead's Town"?

3. What do the drinkard and his wife first give "Hungry-Monster" to eat?

4. The "natural disaster" that has affected the drinkard's hometown was the result of ________.

5. At the end of the chapter, what does Dance turn into?

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