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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. As a child, what was the only type of money used in the protagonist's town?
(a) Pounds.
(b) Dollars.
(c) Soles.
(d) Cowries.
2. What is NOT true about the "complete" gentleman?
(a) He wears expensive clothes.
(b) He could be sold for at least two thousand pounds.
(c) He is short.
(d) He is beautiful.
3. What is NOT true about "Spirit of Prey"?
(a) He has hard scales covering his body.
(b) He has a head like a lion's.
(c) He walks on four legs.
(d) He is as big as a hippopotamus.
4. Who does the woman marry?
(a) The complete gentleman.
(b) Skull.
(c) Zurrjir.
(d) The drinkard.
5. What important question does the king of "Unreturnable-Heaven's Town" ask the drinkard and his wife?
(a) "Where did you come from?"
(b) "How long will you stay here?"
(c) "Are you gods?"
(d) "Where is my sister?"
Short Answer Questions
1. Where did the tapster go after leaving town?
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"?
3. What is true about the "highway men"?
4. What does the Termite House look like?
5. What does the drinkard turn himself into after they get to the river and cut down a tree?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the drinkard react when he first sees the Skull as a "complete gentleman"?
2. Comment on the parent-child relationship, during "On the Way to an Unknown Place." What is significant about the characters' roles?
3. What kind of story is this? How is it told?
4. In "Three Good Creatures Took Over Our Trouble," how do the drinkard and his wife make money? What might this say about their characters?
5. 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?
6. 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?
7. Describe Skull and his house.
8. 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?
9. There is a common saying, "like father like son." How is this true in respect to the drinkard and his son Zurrjir?
10. During "To Travel by Air," why does the drinkard turn himself into a bird and fly his wife to their next destination?
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