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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 141-170.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of tree does the narrator discuss as living thousands of years in the book?
(a) Pine.
(b) Maple.
(c) Oak.
(d) Willow.

2. What does Miss Flitworth try to kill with poisoned food?
(a) Chickens.
(b) Rats.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Hamsters.

3. What is the name of a small piece of Bill Door's former self, incarnated for the reaping of rat souls?
(a) One-Man-Bucket.
(b) Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler.
(c) Reg Shoe.
(d) Death-of-Rats.

4. What does Bill Door have trouble grasping when trying to appear human?
(a) Others' feelings.
(b) Love.
(c) A conscience.
(d) Common idioms and turns of phrase.

5. Who is customarily present at the death of a wizard, but was not when the wizard was dying?
(a) The Patrician.
(b) The Bursar.
(c) Death.
(d) The Dean.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the dance described at the beginning of the book?

2. What is the name of Death's loyal human assistant?

3. What does a small child tell Bill Door he looks like just after moving to Discworld?

4. Whose palace sends a squad of guards to come investigate the sudden poltergeist activity at the university?

5. Who is Bill Door able to accurately describe to Miss Flitworth that surprises her?

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