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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 122-158.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cutwell offer Mort when Mort arrives at the palace?
(a) A enchanted sprout made to look like a strawberry.
(b) A pain killer.
(c) Hassenpfeffer.
(d) A dancing chocolate frog.

2. What does Mort see when he looks in Death's empty eye sockets?
(a) Souls of the departed.
(b) A wide array of far off visions.
(c) Fear.
(d) Two blue stars.

3. What does Lezek say happened to Mort because his grandmother taught him how to read?
(a) It made him as mad as a wet hen.
(b) It didn't have any effect at all.
(c) It gave him rather liberal ideals.
(d) His mind overheated.

4. What does Cutwell explain happened to the author of the book?
(a) He drowned fifty years ago.
(b) He communed with Death and one day just wasn't there any longer.
(c) He disappeared two thousand years ago.
(d) No one is certain.

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 had Cutwell been using as a bookmark in his book?

2. What does Mort NOT smell when he sniffs the scumble?

3. What does Cutwell explain when Keli refuses to leave with Mort on his horse?

4. Why does the witch, Goodie Hamstring, explain that Death doesn't like magical people?

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

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