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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. How many creatures are in the bag with the drinkard and his wife?
2. What must you do to make the tapster's gift to the drinkard work?
3. What does "Hungry-Monster" do with the wooden doll?
4. According to the tapster, why do "alives" and "deads" not live together?
5. What do the drinkard and the tapser do together?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the drinkard ask the reader for help in judging the court cases from "mixed town"?
2. Describe the hungry-creature.
3. Does the palm-wine drinkard receive a positive or negative reception from tapster in Dead's Town? How so?
4. Describe the white tree.
5. What does "Faithful-Mother" give the drinkard and his wife when they depart?
6. 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?
7. Describe the "Red-Lady" and her fashion taste.
8. How do the townspeople treat the drinkard after the egg breaks?
9. Does the wife's prophecy about the "Invisible-Pawn"--"wonderful hard worker, but he would be a wonderful robber in future"--come true ?
10. 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)
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain why "death" is an important theme in this novel. Using three examples, demonstrate the different ways in which death is present in the novel and how each of these examples are significant (symbolically, morally, plot-wise, etc.)
Essay Topic 2
The drinkard kills the red fish and red bird with the gun that Faithful-Mother gave him. Afterward, all the red people ran from him in fear. Earlier in the story, the drinkard used his juju to defeat opponents and instill the same fear in people. Please address this shift in how the drinkard deals with challenges. Be sure to discuss whether this shift is symbolic or not and why.
Essay Topic 3
Parenting is a difficult task. Analyze the representation of the drinkard and his wife as parents. How are they represented? Is this representation symbolic? What message is being conveyed or lesson taught by their example?
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