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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does the drinkard make the rule that he would only serve people outside?
(a) There are so many people visiting him and they are very pushy.
(b) He wants to keep the egg a secret from them.
(c) He is hiding the tapster in his house.
(d) The egg creats more when there is more open space.

3. What does the drinkard ask of his readers after he explains the two cases?
(a) To pay all debts.
(b) To go to "Mixed Town."
(c) To not deal with wizards.
(d) To help him make the final judgements.

4. How much money is involved in the first case's conflict?
(a) 10 pounds.
(b) 1 pound.
(c) 100 pounds.
(d) 1000 pounds.

5. Why can't Faithful-Mother accompany the drinkard and his wife on the rest of their journey?
(a) She must stay within her borders.
(b) She walks more slowly than them and would hold them up.
(c) She is too ill.
(d) She does not like the drinkard's wife.

6. Whom does the drinkard help during the "natural disaster"?
(a) Only people from his hometown.
(b) Only his family and close friends.
(c) People from various towns and villages surrounding his house.
(d) Only his family.

7. What does "Hungry-Monster" do with the wooden doll?
(a) He gives it to his daughter.
(b) He throws it into the river.
(c) He eats it.
(d) He breaks it.

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

9. What does the tapster say he did the night he died?
(a) He floated straight to Dead's Town.
(b) He went home but realized that nobody could see or hear him.
(c) He climbed up a palm tree and hid there.
(d) He left in search of his dead father.

10. How does the drinkard put an end to the "natural disaster"?
(a) He sends a sacrifice to Heaven.
(b) He plants his magic seeds.
(c) He negotiates with Land.
(d) He throws his magic egg in the river.

11. How do the drinkard and his wife get more money?
(a) They beg Faithful-Mother for money.
(b) They take their fear back and collect the interest.
(c) They create money with their juju.
(d) They start another ferry business.

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

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

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

15. What happens when the drinkard offers the "Invisible-Pawn" yams and corn as thanks for his work?
(a) "Invisible-Pawn" eats all the crops in town.
(b) "Invisible-Pawn" refuses the offer.
(c) "Invisible-Pawn" only eats yams.
(d) "Invisible-Pawn" only eats corn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Hungry-Monster" cry?

2. What is the "Invisible-Pawn's" name?

3. What is the drinkard's hobby in the next town they go to after escaping "Hungry-Monster"?

4. From the second case the drinkard tries, what did the first wife do when her husband died unexpectedly?

5. What does the man do on the morning of the seventh day of the parade?

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