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

2. When can "alives" enter Dead's Town.
(a) Never.
(b) At night.
(c) Between 4 and 6 p.m.
(d) At dawn.

3. What does "Hungry-Monster" do with the wooden doll?
(a) He throws it into the river.
(b) He breaks it.
(c) He eats it.
(d) He gives it to his daughter.

4. How many creatures are in the bag with the drinkard and his wife?
(a) 3.
(b) 17.
(c) 40.
(d) 9.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What else does the drinkard do in case there are future difficulties?

2. Who does the drinkard assign to help him with his plan to end the "natural disaster"?

3. Who joins the "mountain-creatures" in their favorite activity?

4. Why can't the slave escape the rain?

5. What does the tapster do for the drinkard and his wife?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does "Faithful-Mother" give the drinkard and his wife when they depart?

3. Describe the feud between Heaven and Land.

4. Describe the white tree.

5. Are plants important in this story?

6. What does the drinkard do when he realizes the townspeople plan to revolt against him?

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

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

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

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

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