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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 is the drinkard supposed to walk in "Dead's Town"?
2. How many dead babies do the drinkard and his wife meet on the road?
3. What is the drinkard's hobby in the next town they go to after escaping "Hungry-Monster"?
4. What is the bridge that the drinkard and his wife cross?
5. When can "alives" enter Dead's Town.
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the drinkard escape from the hungry-creature's stomach? Is this realistic?
2. Describe the group of four hundred dead babies the drinkard and his wife meet on the road.
3. 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?
4. What does the drinkard do when he realizes the townspeople plan to revolt against him?
5. What did the drinkard and his wife do with their death and fear? Why is this significant?
6. Does the palm-wine drinkard receive a positive or negative reception from tapster in Dead's Town? How so?
7. Does the drinkard give a satisfactory reason for fighting and then killing the bag creatures?
8. Describe the feud between Heaven and Land.
9. How do the townspeople treat the drinkard after the egg breaks?
10. What new power does the drinkard's wife develop during pages 248-264?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
The Palm-wine Drinkard is a circular story in that the main character ends back in the place where he started, his hometown. Explain three possible motives for developing and ending the story like this.
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