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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 the woman's father finally tell the drinkard?
(a) Where he can find the tapster.
(b) That he is also the drinkard's father.
(c) Who died in the fire.
(d) That he can marry the woman.

2. Why do the attendants bring an eagle?
(a) Because it sings a special song.
(b) To kill it and eat it.
(c) To take out the eyes of the drinkard and his wife.
(d) To ride on it to the next town.

3. Why does the drinkard cut down a tree when he and his wife reach the river?
(a) He carves it into a paddle.
(b) He carves it into a boat.
(c) He carves it into weapons.
(d) He makes his wife a wooden doll.

4. What did Zurrjir love to do?
(a) Drink.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Eat.
(d) Talk.

5. What are the people of "Unreturnable-Heaven's Town" like?
(a) They are well versed in philosophy.
(b) They all have three eyes.
(c) They do things backwards and incorrectly.
(d) They are sweet and pleasant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the terrible animal?

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

3. Why is the terrible animal mad?

4. What does the Termite House look like?

5. Who is inside the white tree?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does the drinkard's initial plan to escape the white creatures backfire?

3. During "To Travel by Air," why does the drinkard turn himself into a bird and fly his wife to their next destination?

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

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

6. There is a common saying, "like father like son." How is this true in respect to the drinkard and his son Zurrjir?

7. Describe the "Spirit of Prey" and how he kills his prey.

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

9. 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?

10. Describe Death and his house.

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