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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when the woman gets off the bullfrog?
(a) She disappears.
(b) Her necklace breaks.
(c) The cowrie starts screaming.
(d) Her scarf starts to choke her.

2. Why does the drinkard cut down a tree when he and his wife reach the river?
(a) He carves it into a paddle.
(b) He makes his wife a wooden doll.
(c) He carves it into weapons.
(d) He carves it into a boat.

3. What does the drinkard light on fire?
(a) A palm-wine tree.
(b) The town hall.
(c) Skull's hole.
(d) The building where Zurrjir sleeps.

4. What happens when the children of "Unreturnable-Heaven's Town" try to nail the heads of the drinkard and his wife?
(a) The children can not find hammers.
(b) The tapster saves them.
(c) The eagle saves them.
(d) The kings saves them.

5. What important question does the king of "Unreturnable-Heaven's Town" ask the drinkard and his wife?
(a) "Where is my sister?"
(b) "Where did you come from?"
(c) "Are you gods?"
(d) "How long will you stay here?"

Short Answer Questions

1. To complete his first challenge, what does the drinkard turn himself into?

2. What does the woman, who is held captive by Skull, have around her neck?

3. What color are the creatures the drinkard meets in "No road--out to travel from bust to bush to the Dead's town"?

4. What "right thing" does the old man (a god) want the drinkard to bring back from the black-smith?

5. How do the drinkard and his wife end up in the white tree?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the palm-wine drinkard's relationship with his friends at the beginning of the story.

2. There is a common saying, "like father like son." How is this true in respect to the drinkard and his son Zurrjir?

3. Describe how the drinkard's son was born. Why is this extraordinary birth significant?

4. Why does the drinkard's initial plan to escape the white creatures backfire?

5. Describe the "half-bodied baby." Who is he and what is he like?

6. Describe Skull and his house.

7. Comment on the parent-child relationship, during "On the Way to an Unknown Place." What is significant about the characters' roles?

8. How do the drinkard and his wife eventually escape from the white creatures?

9. In the first town that the palm-wine drinkard visits, he meets an old man who gives him two challenges. How does the drinkard complete these tasks and what does this say about his human and non-human abilities?

10. What is special about Drum, Song, and Dance?

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