Jean Ritchie and Paul Clayton have it titled "The Devil's Questions" and there is not nine of them. I joked earlier about there being more than one answer for #8. As it is, the ONLY thing meaner than womankind is the devil. With 2 ex-wives, I could believe that. What I am trying to say is even I wasn't comfortable with that answer and I am glad that Jean does not include that verse in her version.

The liner notes say:

THE DEVIL'S QUESTIONS (Sung by Paul Clayton and Jean Ritchie)
I first heard this ballad at one of the folk festivals on White Top Mountain in southwestern Virginia. The ballad is number one in Professor Francis James Child's great textual compilation, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, and is one of the oldest songs in the English language. The earliest version appears in a manuscript "in a hand of about 1450." and may be seen in the Bodelian Library in England.