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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of weather do Bill Door and Miss Flitworth endure while trying to collect their harvest?
(a) A thunderstorm.
(b) Sunny.
(c) Snowing.
(d) A hailstorm.

2. What does the person Bill Door hires to destroy his scythe first try to destroy it with?
(a) Boiler.
(b) Spanner.
(c) Furnace.
(d) Fire.

3. Who begins racing the combination harvester the first time it is used?
(a) Windle Poons.
(b) Bill Door.
(c) Reg Shoe.
(d) Senior Wrangler.

4. Which of the following things does Bill Door NOT use to sharpen his weapon on?
(a) The first rays of dawn.
(b) Hair.
(c) Cobweb.
(d) Silk.

5. What kind of weapon does Bill Door use in the book?
(a) A knife.
(b) A gun.
(c) A scythe.
(d) A rope.

6. What does Bill Door explain that the little girl he saved from a fire is living on?
(a) Strongly.
(b) Borrowed time.
(c) Barely.
(d) A prayer.

7. How does Bill Door tell Miss Flitworth he saw her name engraved?
(a) Her lifetimer.
(b) Her grave.
(c) Her birth certificate.
(d) Her back.

8. Who glories in using his magic to destroy trolleys, but is unsuccessful?
(a) The Dean.
(b) The Patrician.
(c) The Bursar.
(d) The Archchancellor.

9. What does Mrs. Cake say there is an imbalance in life force between?
(a) Heaven and hell.
(b) God and the devil.
(c) Good and evil.
(d) The present world and the astral.

10. Who does Bill Door hire to destroy his scythe?
(a) Arthur Winkings.
(b) One-Man-Bucket.
(c) Ned Simnel.
(d) Schleppel.

11. How many chests does Miss Flitworth have sitting on her dresser?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

12. What do the leaflets littering much of the city say after the hive is destroyed?
(a) Oh well.
(b) Now or never.
(c) Everything must go.
(d) Goodbye.

13. What does Modo realize has begun to move on its own, and later attacks him?
(a) A grave.
(b) A dumpster.
(c) A compost heap.
(d) A trash can.

14. What color are the baskets the group finds inside the pyramid?
(a) Bronze.
(b) Golden.
(c) Green.
(d) Silver.

15. Who is sitting on a beam and talks to Bill Door after his lifetimer empties?
(a) Azrael.
(b) Death-Of-Rats.
(c) Schleppel.
(d) Arthur.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Miss Flitworth reunited with after she dies?

2. What does the Archchancellor use to defeat a moving compost?

3. What is everyone in town amazed at when they see the combination harvester work for the first time?

4. Who appears to Death after he sends a friend away at the end of the book?

5. What does Miss Flitworth realize has changed about her looks after Death reveals she has died?

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