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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. Why does the protagonist leave his town?
(a) He leaves in search of the dead tapster.
(b) He is exiled by his family.
(c) There is a famine and he is hungry.
(d) He follows the woman he wants to marry.

2. When does "half-bodied baby" finally come down from the drinkard?
(a) When he meets Drums, Song, and Dance.
(b) When he want to learn how to walk.
(c) When they run into the white creatures.
(d) When he gets a big steak.

3. Who gave the drinkard the juju he uses to turn himself into a large bird?
(a) A ghost.
(b) His father.
(c) Water Spirt Woman.
(d) Spirit of Prey.

4. What is the protagonist's name?
(a) God of Palm-Wine.
(b) Zurrjir
(c) His name is unknown.
(d) Father of the gods who could do everything in this world.

5. What is NOT true about "Spirit of Prey"?
(a) He is as big as a hippopotamus.
(b) He has hard scales covering his body.
(c) He walks on four legs.
(d) He has a head like a lion's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the drinkard and his wife stay by the river for a whole month?

2. After meeting Drums, Song, and Dance, what does the drinkard do for five days?

3. What happens to the woman's thumb?

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

5. While living in Wraith Island, what is the drinkard's profession?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe "Laugh."

2. 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?

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

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

6. What do the drinkard and his wife find out when they arrive in the town where the tapster is supposed to be? How do they react?

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

8. 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?

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

10. How does the drinkard react when he first sees the Skull as a "complete gentleman"?

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