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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is this year's annual sacrifice in the red bush?
(a) The king.
(b) The red lady.
(c) The drinkard.
(d) The drinkard's wife.

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

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

4. In the second case, which wife does the husband first pick when he is brought back to life?
(a) His first wife.
(b) His second wife.
(c) His third wife.
(d) None, the third wife offers herself.

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

6. Who joins the "mountain-creatures" in their favorite activity?
(a) The drinkard's wife.
(b) The red lady.
(c) The tapster.
(d) The drinkard.

7. What does the drinkard use to help alleviate the damage caused by the "natural disaster."
(a) He uses his magic egg.
(b) He uses his magic seeds from Wraith Island.
(c) He concocts a remedy out of palm-wine.
(d) He uses his juju.

8. What do the dead babies do?
(a) Beg for milk.
(b) Beat with sticks the adults who pass by.
(c) Sing happy nursery rhymes.
(d) Roll to their destinations.

9. What does the tapster bring to the drinkard and his wife?
(a) Money.
(b) Weapons.
(c) Food.
(d) New clothes.

10. What gift does the tapster give the drinkard?
(a) A rare tapping tool.
(b) Palm tree seeds.
(c) A new tapster.
(d) A magic egg.

11. What is the "Invisible-Pawn's" name?
(a) Give and Take.
(b) Here and There.
(c) Come and Go.
(d) Catch and Release.

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

13. Where do the drinkard and his wife go to get their heads treated?
(a) The garden.
(b) The medicine man.
(c) The stream.
(d) The hospital.

14. How many creatures are in the bag with the drinkard and his wife?
(a) 40.
(b) 3.
(c) 9.
(d) 17.

15. Why is the drinkard kicked out of "Dead's Town"?
(a) He is too dangerous.
(b) He refuses to follow the rules.
(c) He falls and bleeds.
(d) He is too loud.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the drinkard and his wife are captured and put in a bag, what are the other creatures in the bag like?

2. What do the drinkard and the tapser do together?

3. What does "Hungry-Monster" cry?

4. After how long, does Faithful-Mother tell the drinkard and his wife that they must leave?

5. What ultimately happens to the man with the sack?

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