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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. What does Windle find the gardener at the Unseen University using instead of a wheelbarrow?
(a) A truck.
(b) A wire basket.
(c) A shopping cart.
(d) A golf cart.

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

3. What is the name of Death's loyal human assistant?
(a) Dean.
(b) Albert.
(c) Bill.
(d) Reg.

4. What is the name of the bashful banshee who passes notes?
(a) Ixolite.
(b) Doreen.
(c) Azreal.
(d) Ludmilla.

5. How does Bill Door awaken from a dream in the book?
(a) Scared.
(b) Groggy and confused.
(c) Excited.
(d) Angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the zombie that first greets Windle Poons at his first meeting of the Fresh Start Club?

2. What is the name of Miss Flitworth's long lost fiancé?

3. What is the relationship between Archchancellor Ridcully and the Chief Priest in the book?

4. Where do mysterious objects first start appearing in the book?

5. What is the name that Death takes on when he acts as a human?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the wizards almost injured by a chandelier in the book?

2. What does Bill Door do to Miss Flitworth's clock while visiting with her?

3. How is Windle Poons described after the wizards bury him in a coffin while undead?

4. How is Windle Poons' death described in the book?

5. What happens when Windle Poons realizes Schleppel followed him home after the Fresh Start Club meeting?

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

7. How is the Morris dance first described?

8. How does Bill Door use the scythe to cut Miss Fitworth's grass?

9. How does the narrator describe how the persona of Death was created?

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

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