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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 are the houses in "Unreturnable-Heaven's Town" like?
(a) They have one room.
(b) They are thatched with grass.
(c) They are underground.
(d) They are three stories.

2. Who do the townspeople want to exile?
(a) Zurrjir.
(b) The complete gentleman.
(c) The drinkard.
(d) The woman.

3. What do the creatures do when the drinkard transforms himself in "No road--out to travel from bust to bush to the Dead's town"?
(a) They touch him.
(b) They get closer to get warm.
(c) They run away in fear.
(d) They laugh.

4. What does the drinkard change himself into to follow the complete gentleman?
(a) A butterfly.
(b) A woman.
(c) A lizard.
(d) A bullfrog.

5. 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) The complete gentleman shrinks into a tiny complete gentleman.
(c) A curious creature kidnaps the complete gentleman.
(d) The complete gentleman returns his body parts to the owner he had rented them from.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the protagonist bring with him on his journey?

2. Before entering the white tree, what do the drinkard and his wife do?

3. How long ago did the tapster leave the town where the drinkard thought he'd find him?

4. What does the drinkard light on fire?

5. What are the people of "Unreturnable-Heaven's Town" like?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is the narrator of this novel? What is he like?

3. Who is "Faithful-Mother"? What is her responsibility?

4. Describe the "Spirit of Prey" and how he kills his prey.

5. The drinkard describes the inhabitants of "Unreturnable-Heaven's Town" as "backwards." What does he mean by this? Elaborate.

6. 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?

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

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

9. Describe "Laugh."

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

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