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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the drinkard change himself into to follow the complete gentleman?
2. Who do the townspeople want to exile?
3. How long ago did the tapster leave the town where the drinkard thought he'd find him?
4. What does the terrible animal give the drinkard?
5. How do the drinkard and his wife escape the people of "Unreturnable-Heaven's Town"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Skull and his house.
2. How is the "bush" personified in "Not Too Small to be Chosen"?
3. Describe how the drinkard's son was born. Why is this extraordinary birth significant?
4. In "Three Good Creatures Took Over Our Trouble," how do the drinkard and his wife make money? What might this say about their characters?
5. Describe the white monster that the drinkard and his wife encounter in "No Road--Ought to Travel from Bush to Bush to the Dead's Town."
6. What kind of story is this? How is it told?
7. Who is the narrator of this novel? What is he like?
8. How does the drinkard react when he first sees the Skull as a "complete gentleman"?
9. Comment on how the drinkard deals with his insatiable son.
10. Comment on the parent-child relationship, during "On the Way to an Unknown Place." What is significant about the characters' roles?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Comment on the grotesque elements in this novel. Give at least three examples of the grotesque and explain their significance within the novel. How would the novel be different without these grotesque elements?
Essay Topic 2
There are many borders in The Palm-wine drinkard, and trespassing these borders can create trouble. Choose three examples of trespassing and explain why they are significant. Next, discuss the symbolism in borders and border crossing. Are the examples you listed at all allegorical? Why?
Essay Topic 3
Magical Realism is a genre of literature in which magical elements are considered normal within the reality of a novel. Could The Palm-wine Drinkard be classified under this genre? Support your answer with at least three examples from the book.
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