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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 do the drinkard and the tapser do together?
(a) Tap palm-wine with new technology.
(b) Go hunting.
(c) Build a carriage.
(d) Exchange stories.

2. How is the drinkard supposed to walk in "Dead's Town"?
(a) Backwards.
(b) Slowly.
(c) Quickly.
(d) On his tiptoes.

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

4. Who says, "Wonderful hard worker, but he would be a wonderful robber in future"?
(a) The drinkard.
(b) The drinkard's wife.
(c) Faithful-Mother.
(d) The Invisible-Pawn.

5. Who is the power that creates the "natural disaster" that affects the drinkard's hometown?
(a) Land.
(b) God.
(c) Heaven.
(d) The king of Dead's Town.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the townspeople react to what "Invisible-Pawn" does when the drinkard offers him yams and corn as a thank you?

2. On the way to Dead's Town, the drinkard and his wife get lost and ask to follow a man with a sack. What is in the sack?

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

4. In the second case, which wife does the husband first pick when he is brought back to life?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What new power does the drinkard's wife develop during pages 248-264?

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

3. Describe the feud between Heaven and Land.

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

5. Why does the drinkard let the hungry-creature eat him?

6. Describe the hungry-creature.

7. Are plants important in this story?

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

9. Compare the juju the drinkard used during difficult situations with the gun he used during difficult situations.

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

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