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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 man they are following make the drinkard and his wife carry his sack?
(a) They owe him a favor from many years ago.
(b) He doesn't; they offer to help him.
(c) He is trying to blackmail them.
(d) It is too heavy for him.

2. How do the red people loose their redness?
(a) The drinkard kills the red bird and red fish.
(b) The king dies.
(c) The king burns the red tree.
(d) The drinkard makes a deal with the wizard.

3. After how long, does Faithful-Mother tell the drinkard and his wife that they must leave?
(a) Four years.
(b) Two months.
(c) A year and two months.
(d) One day.

4. How does the wise king help the drinkard and his wife on their journey?
(a) He tells them the shortest route to "Dead's Town."
(b) He lends them three of his slaves.
(c) He gives them extra juju.
(d) He gives them some money.

5. What "natural disaster" has killed millions of people?
(a) A plague.
(b) A blizzard.
(c) A famine.
(d) A flood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT true about the lady that approaches the drinkard and his wife?

2. Why do the drinkard and his wife leave the town?

3. How many creatures are in the bag with the drinkard and his wife?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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)

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

5. How do the townspeople treat the drinkard after the egg breaks?

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

7. How does the drinkard escape from the hungry-creature's stomach? Is this realistic?

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

9. Are plants important in this story?

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

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