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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. What does the drinkard use to help alleviate the damage caused by the "natural disaster."
2. Who is the lady who brought the drinkard to the red bush?
3. What did the red king kill that caused the town to turn red?
4. How does the drinkard's magical egg break?
5. When Heaven and Land go hunting, what animal do they kill?
Short Essay Questions
1. How could the magic egg be seen as symbolic?
2. What did the drinkard and his wife do with their death and fear? Why is this significant?
3. 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)
4. Why does the drinkard let the hungry-creature eat him?
5. How do the townspeople treat the drinkard when comes home and shares his powerful egg?
6. Describe how the "Invisible-Pawn" gets his work done.
7. Does the drinkard give a satisfactory reason for fighting and then killing the bag creatures?
8. What themes do we find in "The Invisible-Pawn" chapter that we have seen in earlier chapters?
9. What new power does the drinkard's wife develop during pages 248-264?
10. What does "Faithful-Mother" give the drinkard and his wife when they depart?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
While in Dead's Town the tapster explains that "alives" and "deads" can not live together because they each think the other group does everything backwards or incorrectly. Comment on this allegorical chapter using these questions to guide you:
(1) What happens in this chapter? Where else in the book do we find similar events and themes?
(2) What are these scene allegories for?
(3) Is there a moral lesson or resolution to these allegories? Explain why or why not.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Although the drinkard is named "Father of gods who could do everything in this world," he is not omnipotent. It takes more than a twitch of his nose or a snap of his fingers to accomplish his feats. This being said, the drinkard uses a combination of supernatural magic and human wit when dealing with challenges. Discuss how he is fantastical, how he is human, and why this combination makes him a compelling character.
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