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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 are three stories.
(b) They are underground.
(c) They have one room.
(d) They are thatched with grass.

2. What does the drinkard use to transform himself to escape the creatures, in "No road--out to travel from bust to bush to the Dead's town"?
(a) Palm-wine.
(b) His juju.
(c) A special leaf.
(d) His father's charm.

3. To complete his first challenge, what does the drinkard turn himself into?
(a) A frog.
(b) A dog.
(c) A lizard.
(d) A bird.

4. Before entering the white tree, what do the drinkard and his wife do?
(a) They kill a creature because they are hungry.
(b) They dance by a fire for thirteen days.
(c) They sell their deaths and loan out their fears.
(d) They gather leaves to make medicine.

5. Who does the woman marry?
(a) The drinkard.
(b) Skull.
(c) The complete gentleman.
(d) Zurrjir.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the woman gets off the bullfrog?

2. What does wife forget in the ashes?

3. What does this character do in return for being forgotten by the king?

4. Which description is NOT true about "half-bodied baby"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. How is the "bush" personified in "Not Too Small to be Chosen"?

3. 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?

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

5. Describe the white monster that the drinkard and his wife encounter in "No Road--Ought to Travel from Bush to Bush to the Dead's Town."

6. Describe "Laugh."

7. When following and spying on Skull, what does the drinkard turn himself into and why?

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

9. Do the drinkard and his wife enjoy staying on Wraith-Island? Why or why not?

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

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