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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. According to the tapster, why do "alives" and "deads" not live together?
(a) Because each does things in opposite (and incorrect) ways.
(b) Because it is biologically impossible.
(c) Because there is not enough food.
(d) Because God prohibits it.

2. 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 is trying to determine who the true murderer is.
(c) To express his gratitude.
(d) He thinks they are long lost family members.

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

4. What must you do to make the tapster's gift to the drinkard work?
(a) You insert a key.
(b) You heat it up.
(c) You put it in water.
(d) You shake it before use.

5. What does "Hungry-Monster" cry?
(a) "Food-food-food."
(b) "Yummy in my tummy."
(c) "More!"
(d) "Hungry-hungry-hungry."

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the drinkard make the rule that he would only serve people outside?

2. What does the drinkard turn his wife into to keep her safe from "Hungry-Monster"?

3. Why is it so hard for the drinkard and his wife to reach and enter "Dead's Town"?

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

5. How many dead babies do the drinkard and his wife meet on the road?

Short Essay Questions

1. While living in "mixed town," the drinkard is asked to judge two separate cases, but he leaves them unresolved. How are they similar and what makes them hard to resolve?

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

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

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

5. Explain why some might consider the drinkard to be a "good" character in the end and another might see him as a "bad" character.

6. Describe the white tree.

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

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

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

10. After fighting fantastical monsters for ten years, what new hardship does the drinkard come home to? Could this be considered a real life monster? Why?

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