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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the "half-bodied baby" appear?
(a) On the road.
(b) Out of a bush.
(c) From the ashes.
(d) From a tree.

2. Where did the tapster go after leaving town?
(a) Palm-wine Grove.
(b) Dead's Town.
(c) Unreturnable-Heaven's Town.
(d) Mixed Town.

3. Whom does the drinkard and his wife meet personally the night, after meeting the king?
(a) Laugh.
(b) Dance.
(c) Talk.
(d) Snort.

4. What does the protagonist bring with him on his journey?
(a) A sack of money.
(b) A magic stone.
(c) Juju.
(d) Palm-wine.

5. What was notable about the the protagonist's father?
(a) His father lived to be 106 years old.
(b) His father was the richest man in their town.
(c) His father had one leg.
(d) His father had 13 children.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does "Spirit of Prey" kill his prey?

2. How does the king try to make the drinkard and his wife talk?

3. As a child, what was the only type of money used in the protagonist's town?

4. When his parents do not listen to him, "half-bodied baby" commands that they _________.

5. Where does Skull live?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. How do the drinkard and his wife eventually escape from the white creatures?

3. 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."

4. What is symbolic about the magic seeds?

5. Comment on how the drinkard deals with his insatiable son.

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. During "To Travel by Air," why does the drinkard turn himself into a bird and fly his wife to their next destination?

8. How does the drinkard react when he first sees the Skull as a "complete gentleman"?

9. Comment on the parent-child relationship, during "On the Way to an Unknown Place." What is significant about the characters' roles?

10. Describe how the drinkard's son was born. Why is this extraordinary birth significant?

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