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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. The "half-bodied baby" commands his mother to _________.
2. What happens when the woman gets off the bullfrog?
3. What color are the creatures the drinkard meets in "No road--out to travel from bust to bush to the Dead's town"?
4. Why won't the people of Wraith Island leave with the drinkard and his wife?
5. What does the drinkard turn himself into after they get to the river and cut down a tree?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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."
2. Describe the palm-wine drinkard's relationship with his friends at the beginning of the story.
3. Describe the "half-bodied baby." Who is he and what is he like?
4. Why couldn't the people of Wraith-Island accompany the drinkar and his wife to their next destination? Have you noticed this problem in previous chapters?
5. Who is the narrator of this novel? What is he like?
6. Comment on how the drinkard deals with his insatiable son.
7. Describe "Laugh."
8. 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?
9. What kind of story is this? How is it told?
10. Describe Skull and his house.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Comment on how the story ends. Be sure to address the following questions:
(1) What type of ending is this? Why?
(2) Is there closure? How so or how is there not?
(3) Why might the author have ended the story this way? What is significant or symbolic about this type of ending?
Essay Topic 2
There are three prominent female characters in The Palm-wine Drinkard. Describe each and their significance within the novel. Next, compare and contrast their roles. Finally, address this question: Is their being female the only thing that ties them together?
Essay Topic 3
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.)
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