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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. Who is "Invisible-Pawn"?
(a) The drinkard's son.
(b) The tapster.
(c) The head of the bush creatures.
(d) Skull.

2. When does "Invisible-Pawn" do his work?
(a) During siesta.
(b) At night.
(c) At dusk.
(d) At noon.

3. When Heaven and Land go hunting, what animal do they kill?
(a) A bird.
(b) A mouse.
(c) A goat.
(d) A hippopotamus.

4. Why does the drinkard make the rule that he would only serve people outside?
(a) He is hiding the tapster in his house.
(b) There are so many people visiting him and they are very pushy.
(c) He wants to keep the egg a secret from them.
(d) The egg creats more when there is more open space.

5. Why does the wise king dress up the drinkard and his wife and parade them around town?
(a) He thinks they are long lost family members.
(b) He is trying to determine who the true murderer is.
(c) To express his gratitude.
(d) To celebrate the foreign visitors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the man they are following make the drinkard and his wife carry his sack?

2. Where is the next town the drinkard and his wife go to after escaping "Hungry-Monster"?

3. What happens when "Invisible-Pawn" is asked to bring firewood?

4. Who does the drinkard assign to help him with his plan to end the "natural disaster"?

5. Who puts the drinkard and his wife in the huge bag?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the king from "We and the Wise King in the Wrong Town with the Prince Killer" described as wise?

2. Why does the drinkard ask the reader for help in judging the court cases from "mixed town"?

3. Describe the feud between Heaven and Land.

4. How could the magic egg be seen as symbolic?

5. Comment on how the drinkard sums up his journey, "And so all our trials, difficulties and many years' travel brought only an egg or resulted in an egg." (Chapter 32, p. 295)

6. Does the wife's prophecy about the "Invisible-Pawn"--"wonderful hard worker, but he would be a wonderful robber in future"--come true ?

7. Does the drinkard give a satisfactory reason for fighting and then killing the bag creatures?

8. When can the drinkard and his wife enter "Dead's Town"? Is this symbolic?

9. What themes do we find in "The Invisible-Pawn" chapter that we have seen in earlier chapters?

10. Does the palm-wine drinkard receive a positive or negative reception from tapster in Dead's Town? How so?

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