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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 is the bed in Death's house made of?
(a) Human hair.
(b) Human bones.
(c) Straw.
(d) Stones.
2. Who does the king of Wraith Island forget to chose to help clear the fields?
(a) A tiny creature.
(b) His cousin.
(c) An witch.
(d) A transparent spirit.
3. What does the protagonist do when he finds the tapster dead?
(a) He sobs for three days.
(b) He climbs a palm tree to tap palm-wine.
(c) He brings the body back to town to bury it.
(d) He runs away in fear.
4. 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 run away in fear.
(c) They laugh.
(d) They get closer to get warm.
5. What is NOT true about the terrible animal?
(a) His fingernails are about two feet long.
(b) He is as big as an elephant.
(c) He has teeth as thick as cow horns.
(d) He has long red hair.
Short Answer Questions
1. How do the attendants complete the task the king assigns them, regarding the drinkard and his wife?
2. What does the drinkard change himself into to follow the complete gentleman?
3. How is the bush described that the drinkard and his wife next travel through?
4. Why is the terrible animal mad?
5. 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"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is "Faithful-Mother"? What is her responsibility?
2. Describe how the drinkard's son was born. Why is this extraordinary birth significant?
3. What is special about Drum, Song, and Dance?
4. What is symbolic about the magic seeds?
5. In "Three Good Creatures Took Over Our Trouble," how do the drinkard and his wife make money? What might this say about their characters?
6. Describe the palm-wine drinkard's relationship with his friends at the beginning of the story.
7. What lesson can be learned from the little creature on Wraith-Island who was not picked by the King to help clear the corn fields?
8. During "To Travel by Air," why does the drinkard turn himself into a bird and fly his wife to their next destination?
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. Why does the drinkard's initial plan to escape the white creatures backfire?
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