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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 Faithful-Mother NOT give the drinkard and his wife when they leave?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) A cutlass.
(c) A gun and ammunition.
(d) A map.

2. In the second case, which wife does the husband first pick when he is brought back to life?
(a) His third wife.
(b) None, the third wife offers herself.
(c) His first wife.
(d) His second wife.

3. What do the "mountain-creatures" love to do?
(a) Hike.
(b) Hide in caves.
(c) Dance.
(d) Roll down the mountain.

4. Why can't the slave escape the rain?
(a) Land has cursed him to never be dry again.
(b) The rain only goes where he goes.
(c) The drinkard has prohibited anyone in the town to help him, so he can not find cover.
(d) No one will let them in their house because they fear he will bring them to Heaven.

5. What does the drinkard turn his wife into to escape from the "mountain-creatures"?
(a) A small stick.
(b) A flat stone.
(c) A wooden doll.
(d) A tiny kitten.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is the parade requested by the king supposed to last?

2. How is the drinkard supposed to walk in "Dead's Town"?

3. What happens after the drinkard re-gums the broken egg?

4. From the second case the drinkard tries, what did the second wife do when her husband died unexpectedly?

5. What does the drinkard use to help alleviate the damage caused by the "natural disaster."

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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)

3. Describe how the "Invisible-Pawn" gets his work done.

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

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

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

7. Describe the group of four hundred dead babies the drinkard and his wife meet on the road.

8. How do the townspeople treat the drinkard when comes home and shares his powerful egg?

9. Describe the "Red-Lady" and her fashion taste.

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

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