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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the bush described that the drinkard and his wife next travel through?
(a) Sad.
(b) Dry.
(c) Greedy.
(d) Pleasant.

2. What "right thing" does the old man (a god) want the drinkard to bring back from the black-smith?
(a) A key.
(b) A candlestick.
(c) A tool.
(d) A bell.

3. What does the drinkard light on fire?
(a) The town hall.
(b) A palm-wine tree.
(c) Skull's hole.
(d) The building where Zurrjir sleeps.

4. What does wife forget in the ashes?
(a) Her silver pendant.
(b) Her gold trinket.
(c) Her ring.
(d) A photo album.

5. How long ago did the tapster leave the town where the drinkard thought he'd find him?
(a) 2 days ago.
(b) 10 hours ago.
(c) 10 years ago.
(d) 2 years ago.

6. When his parents do not listen to him, "half-bodied baby" commands that they _________.
(a) Be silenced and unable to breathe.
(b) Be blinded and unable to breathe.
(c) Be blinded and silenced.
(d) Be unable to eat or breathe.

7. What does the drinkard use to transform himself to escape the creatures, in "No road--out to travel from bust to bush to the Dead's town"?
(a) A special leaf.
(b) Palm-wine.
(c) His juju.
(d) His father's charm.

8. Who is the terrible animal?
(a) The owner of the land where the drinkard has planted his crops.
(b) The tapster in form of a beast.
(c) The drinkard's son reincarnated.
(d) Someone the drinkard has sentenced in court.

9. What does Skull make the woman sit on?
(a) A bullfrog.
(b) A mushroom.
(c) A rotting log.
(d) A stool.

10. Why do the drinkard and his wife stay by the river for a whole month?
(a) They have good friends.
(b) They are making and saving up money.
(c) They are waiting for the rainy season to end.
(d) They are under a spell.

11. What did Zurrjir love to do?
(a) Drink.
(b) Talk.
(c) Eat.
(d) Sleep.

12. What is NOT true about the market's owner?
(a) He has a strange moustache.
(b) He jumps instead of walks.
(c) He has no foot.
(d) His head is small like a baby's.

13. Which description is NOT true about "half-bodied baby"?
(a) He is growing long hair.
(b) He is getting heavier.
(c) He never sleeps.
(d) He is always hungry.

14. Who does the woman marry?
(a) The complete gentleman.
(b) Skull.
(c) The drinkard.
(d) Zurrjir.

15. Which god does the king make the drinkard meet?
(a) God of War.
(b) God of Travel.
(c) God of Fertility.
(d) God of Wine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the terrible animal give the drinkard?

2. Why does the drinkard cry when he first sees the complete gentleman?

3. What does the drinkard change himself into to follow the complete gentleman?

4. What happens to the woman's thumb?

5. Where does the "half-bodied baby" appear?

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