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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 Skull make the woman sit on?
(a) A mushroom.
(b) A rotting log.
(c) A bullfrog.
(d) A stool.
2. What is NOT true about the specific creature the drinkard describes in "No road--out to travel from bust to bush to the Dead's town"?
(a) He is six feet in diameter.
(b) He has four hands.
(c) He has one eye.
(d) He is a quarter of a mile long
3. What are the people of "Unreturnable-Heaven's Town" like?
(a) They do things backwards and incorrectly.
(b) They are well versed in philosophy.
(c) They are sweet and pleasant.
(d) They all have three eyes.
4. What is NOT true about the market's owner?
(a) His head is small like a baby's.
(b) He has no foot.
(c) He has a strange moustache.
(d) He jumps instead of walks.
5. Zurrjir is described as a "wonderful" child because ________.
(a) He has the special power to creat palm-wine out of water.
(b) If there were a famine, he would travel miles to find and bring back food for his family.
(c) If one hundred men tried to fight him, he is so strong he would just flog them away.
(d) He helps out in the kitchen.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why do the attendants bring an eagle?
2. What does "Zurrjir" mean?
3. What does wife forget in the ashes?
4. What does the drinkard turn himself into after they get to the river and cut down a tree?
5. Where does Skull live?
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. How do the drinkard and his wife eventually escape from the white creatures?
3. How does the drinkard react when he first sees the Skull as a "complete gentleman"?
4. What is symbolic about the magic seeds?
5. Describe how the drinkard's son was born. Why is this extraordinary birth significant?
6. Describe the "half-bodied baby." Who is he and what is he like?
7. Comment on the parent-child relationship, during "On the Way to an Unknown Place." What is significant about the characters' roles?
8. The drinkard describes the inhabitants of "Unreturnable-Heaven's Town" as "backwards." What does he mean by this? Elaborate.
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. Describe "Laugh."
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