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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 does the woman's father finally tell the drinkard?
(a) Who died in the fire.
(b) That he is also the drinkard's father.
(c) Where he can find the tapster.
(d) That he can marry the woman.

2. How long ago did the tapster leave the town where the drinkard thought he'd find him?
(a) 2 years ago.
(b) 10 hours ago.
(c) 2 days ago.
(d) 10 years ago.

3. What does the woman witness as she follows the "complete" gentleman into the forest?
(a) A family of skeletons pays him to "lend them a hand."
(b) A curious creature kidnaps the complete gentleman.
(c) The complete gentleman shrinks into a tiny complete gentleman.
(d) The complete gentleman returns his body parts to the owner he had rented them from.

4. Why does the protagonist leave his town?
(a) There is a famine and he is hungry.
(b) He follows the woman he wants to marry.
(c) He is exiled by his family.
(d) He leaves in search of the dead tapster.

5. What does "Zurrjir" mean?
(a) Father of gods who could do everthing in the world.
(b) Born from a thumb.
(c) Insatiable appetite.
(d) A son who would change himself into another thing soon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the drinkard and his wife meet personally the night, after meeting the king?

2. What happens when the drinkard and his wife do finally talk to the king?

3. Who is inside the white tree?

4. What is NOT true about the market's owner?

5. Where does the "half-bodied baby" appear?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Three Good Creatures Took Over Our Trouble," how do the drinkard and his wife make money? What might this say about their characters?

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

3. Why couldn't the people of Wraith-Island accompany the drinkar and his wife to their next destination? Have you noticed this problem in previous chapters?

4. Describe the drinkard's reaction when he saves the woman from Skull, brings her home, but then cannot get the cowrie off her neck, which prevents her from speaking and eating. Why is this significant?

5. What is symbolic about the magic seeds?

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

7. 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?

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

9. What kind of story is this? How is it told?

10. Comment on how the drinkard deals with his insatiable son.

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