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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who does Goodie say that Death does like?
(a) Farmers.
(b) Priests.
(c) Milkmen.
(d) Thieves.
2. What does Goodie say she is going to do when Mort says he is supposed to take her spirit away?
(a) She wants to return to her old body.
(b) She is going to go to the stars.
(c) She is going to be reincarnated.
(d) She is going to stay.
3. What does Ysabell explain about her age?
(a) She has been sixteen for thirty-five years.
(b) She is in her early twenties but looks much younger.
(c) She is aging backwards.
(d) She is not sure of her real age.
4. What does the 103-year-old woman comment on when Mort arrives to take her?
(a) How much weight he has gained.
(b) What a polite young man he is.
(c) How pale Mort is.
(d) How very nice it is to be done with her old body.
5. What does the abbot say about each of his lives?
(a) He can't remember them while he is alive.
(b) It makes toilet training a lot easier.
(c) He gets all the memories mixed up.
(d) He wishes he could be done with it.
6. Who is the second person that Mort is sent to see to on his own?
(a) A little orphan girl.
(b) The high priest.
(c) A monkey trainer.
(d) The 88th abbot.
7. What does Death say he is in town looking for?
(a) A man who is about to choke on a piece of meat pie.
(b) A old wizard came into town and is about out of time.
(c) An orphanage is about to catch on fire.
(d) An apprentice.
8. What does Keli ask the maid the location of?
(a) The town priest.
(b) The royal bathhouse.
(c) The way to Death's home.
(d) The wizard, Cutwell.
9. Why does the witch, Goodie Hamstring, explain that Death doesn't like magical people?
(a) They give him a hard time.
(b) They have control over Death.
(c) They try to avoid Death.
(d) They smell funny.
10. What does Death say can see him in his true form?
(a) People who practice the magical arts.
(b) Only things that are dead.
(c) Wizards and small animals.
(d) Wizards and cats.
11. What decorates most of the doors in Death's house?
(a) Incantations.
(b) Skull and bones.
(c) Scenes of the apocalypse.
(d) Pictures of kittens playing.
12. What task does Death give Mort on Mort's first day after Mort admits that he wishes to know the secrets of the universe?
(a) Shovel horse dung.
(b) Start studying Death's memoirs.
(c) Dig potatoes.
(d) Clean the kitchen.
13. What does Mort give Binky once he is through the wall?
(a) A sugar cube.
(b) A pat on the head.
(c) A handful of hay.
(d) A note to take to Death.
14. Who tells Mort to be impressed by the wizard?
(a) A house servant.
(b) The guard rail.
(c) The door knocker.
(d) A shoe shine boy.
15. What does Mort notice when Death walks through a crowd?
(a) Wherever Death is, people drift out of the way.
(b) Death goes through people like smoke.
(c) Death is able to fly over people.
(d) The people seem to become translucent.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of these does Mort NOT say about Ysabell while they are walking to the pond?
2. What does Mort see when he looks in Death's empty eye sockets?
3. What surprises Mort when he looks at Death for the first time?
4. What happens to the owner of the tavern after the strange mist wall comes through the tavern?
5. What is the reason that the Gods haven't sent an avalanche to destroy the Listeners?
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