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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 45-86.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the items called that pour the moments of every living person's life from the future into the past?
(a) Duma flitches.
(b) Life-timers.
(c) Mortal hour glasses.
(d) Time trackers.

2. What does the man ask when Mort asks if he dies often?
(a) A fair bit.
(b) Every year it seems like.
(c) This is the first.
(d) I can't remember.

3. How much talent for horticulture is Mort as described as having?
(a) The same as his father.
(b) The same as a dead starfish.
(c) No one was sure since Mort didn't try.
(d) Very little but there was a lot of hope.

4. Who does Mort contact in order to try and find a way into the castle?
(a) Ysabel.
(b) A wizard.
(c) A renowned theif.
(d) Death.

5. Who are the Listeners?
(a) A basketball team.
(b) The oldest religous sect on Discworld.
(c) People who commune with the dead.
(d) A group of audio-scientists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Goodie say she is going to do when Mort says he is supposed to take her spirit away?

2. Who tells Mort to be impressed by the wizard?

3. What is the reason that the Gods haven't sent an avalanche to destroy the Listeners?

4. What does Death say he is in town looking for?

5. What does Mort's family do with the grapes grown on the magical hill?

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