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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 happens to the woman's thumb?
2. What does the king command his attendants to do to the drinkard and his wife?
3. What are the people like in Wraith-Island?
4. Who gave the drinkard the juju he uses to turn himself into a large bird?
5. What does wife forget in the ashes?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the drinkard's reaction when he saves the woman from Skull, brings her home, but then cannot get the cowrie off her neck, which prevents her from speaking and eating. Why is this significant?
2. What is special about Drum, Song, and Dance?
3. How does the drinkard react when he first sees the Skull as a "complete gentleman"?
4. Describe the palm-wine drinkard's relationship with his friends at the beginning of the story.
5. When following and spying on Skull, what does the drinkard turn himself into and why?
6. In the first town that the palm-wine drinkard visits, he meets an old man who gives him two challenges. How does the drinkard complete these tasks and what does this say about his human and non-human abilities?
7. Describe Skull and his house.
8. Comment on how the drinkard deals with his insatiable son.
9. What lesson can be learned from the little creature on Wraith-Island who was not picked by the King to help clear the corn fields?
10. What do the drinkard and his wife find out when they arrive in the town where the tapster is supposed to be? How do they react?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Although The Palm-wine Drinkard is written by a Nigerian author and set in Nigeria, readers from anywhere can understand and appreciate it in their own way. What is universal about this story and why? Give at least three examples.
Essay Topic 2
Symbolism is employed throughout The Palm-wine Drinkard. Discuss the use of and meaning of three symbols. (The teacher could specify three symbols as well: juju, gun, egg, seed, half-bodied baby, etc.).
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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