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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. How does the giant revive the creatures after the drinkard kills them?
(a) He finds a wizard.
(b) He uses his father's charm.
(c) He squeezes a special leaf over them.
(d) He puts them back in the bag.

2. Why do the drinkard and his wife leave the town?
(a) They are scared of "Invisible-Pawn."
(b) They are scared of a revolt.
(c) "Invisible-Pawn" kills all the natives and now they are the only ones left in the town.
(d) It is just time to move on.

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

4. Who puts the drinkard and his wife in the huge bag?
(a) A goat.
(b) The red lady.
(c) A man.
(d) A giant.

5. What was in the center of the white tree?
(a) A park.
(b) A restaurant.
(c) A hospital.
(d) A large dance hall.

Short Answer Questions

1. What must you do to make the tapster's gift to the drinkard work?

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

3. What does the man do on the morning of the seventh day of the parade?

4. Who is this year's annual sacrifice in the red bush?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

4. Describe the hungry-creature.

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

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

7. How are the people of Dead's Town different from living humans?

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

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

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

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