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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many hours does Bill Door discover someone has stolen from his lifetimer while in a hayloft?
(a) 8.
(b) 6.
(c) 10.
(d) 4.

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

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

4. What color do the figures in empty robes wear that report in Death's absence?
(a) Black.
(b) White.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Gray.

5. What does the narrator explain is building up in the world in the absence of death?
(a) Life.
(b) Anger.
(c) Energy.
(d) Excitement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the local hoodlum discussed in the book?

2. What does an auditor refer to himself as that causes him to blow up in flame?

3. What is the name of the gardener at the Unseen University?

4. What does Bill Door try and amuse townsfolk with his poor skills in?

5. How much does the woman pay Death each week for working on her farm?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Windle Poons' first Fresh Start Club meeting described?

2. What does the gray robes that the wizards conjure tell them about Death?

3. What does Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler tell Sergeant Colon is happening in his cellar?

4. How is Bill Door first accepted around town after moving there?

5. How is the Morris dance first described?

6. What does Windle Poons' spirit do after Death doesn't show up to collect him?

7. How do the wizards bury Windle Poons at a crossroad?

8. How is the nature of Lupine's character first described in the book?

9. What happens when Mrs. Cake contacts One-Man-Bucket for the first time in the book?

10. How is Windle Poons' first suicide attempt described?

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