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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 1-45.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Death say can see him in his true form?
(a) Wizards and cats.
(b) Only things that are dead.
(c) People who practice the magical arts.
(d) Wizards and small animals.

2. What does Lezek warn Mort not to tell people about?
(a) The fact that he can read.
(b) How he scares birds.
(c) His theories on the sun.
(d) That he wants to know how the universe works.

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

4. Why does Death explain that people don't seem to see him?
(a) They won't allow themselves to.
(b) It is magic.
(c) Death alters their minds.
(d) Human eyes can't see beyond this world.

5. What does Death go to do when he tells Mort that some things make him really angry?
(a) Fish a bag of dead kittens out of the river.
(b) Go to a box with a starved puppy in it.
(c) Help a hamster that a little boy forgot to feed.
(d) Gets a dead fish out of the sewer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Death say that curry is like?

2. What does Mort see when he looks in Death's empty eye sockets?

3. What task does Death give Mort on Mort's first day after Mort admits that he wishes to know the secrets of the universe?

4. What does Lezek speculate might be one thing that people look at when choosing an apprentice?

5. What does Death say about his job?

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