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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. When his parents do not listen to him, "half-bodied baby" commands that they _________.
(a) Be unable to eat or breathe.
(b) Be silenced and unable to breathe.
(c) Be blinded and unable to breathe.
(d) Be blinded and silenced.

2. Which description is NOT true about "half-bodied baby"?
(a) He never sleeps.
(b) He is growing long hair.
(c) He is always hungry.
(d) He is getting heavier.

3. Which god does the king make the drinkard meet?
(a) God of Travel.
(b) God of War.
(c) God of Fertility.
(d) God of Wine.

4. What color are the creatures the drinkard meets in "No road--out to travel from bust to bush to the Dead's town"?
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Green.
(d) Yellow.

5. What does the woman, who is held captive by Skull, have around her neck?
(a) A cowrie.
(b) A scarf.
(c) Some juju.
(d) A necklace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Zurrjir love to do?

2. What "right thing" does the old man (a god) want the drinkard to bring back from the black-smith?

3. What does the drinkard turn himself into after they get to the river and cut down a tree?

4. The "half-bodied baby" commands his mother to _________.

5. What does wife forget in the ashes?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is "Faithful-Mother"? What is her responsibility?

2. Describe the palm-wine drinkard's relationship with his friends at the beginning of the story.

3. What is special about Drum, Song, and Dance?

4. Describe Skull and his house.

5. Who is the narrator of this novel? What is he like?

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. 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?

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