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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When the drinkard becomes a judge, what is his first case about?
(a) A conflict between two professional gamblers
(b) A conflict between a debter and a debt collector.
(c) A conflict between a professional thief and a vigilante.
(d) A conflict between a father and his son.

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

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

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

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

8. What do the "mountain-creatures" love to do?
(a) Hide in caves.
(b) Dance.
(c) Roll down the mountain.
(d) Hike.

9. On what day after turning red, did everyone in the town die to then settle in the red bush?
(a) The 3rd day.
(b) The 2nd day.
(c) The 14th day.
(d) The 7th day.

10. What color are the "deads'" clothing?
(a) Dark Blue.
(b) Black.
(c) Red.
(d) White.

11. From the second case the drinkard tries, what did the second wife do when her husband died unexpectedly?
(a) She went in search of a wizard.
(b) She stayed and guarded the dead husband's body.
(c) She did nothing.
(d) She died with her husband.

12. Who says, "Wonderful hard worker, but he would be a wonderful robber in future"?
(a) Faithful-Mother.
(b) The drinkard.
(c) The Invisible-Pawn.
(d) The drinkard's wife.

13. Who is the king of the Red-Bush related to?
(a) Skull.
(b) Zurrjir.
(c) Faithful-Mother.
(d) The tapster.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is it so hard for the drinkard and his wife to reach and enter "Dead's Town"?

3. What is the verdict for the second case?

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

5. What did the red king kill that caused the town to turn red?

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