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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. Who sees the new incarnation of Death, along with Bill Door, for the first time?
(a) Windle Poons.
(b) Reg Shoe.
(c) Miss Flitworth.
(d) Schleppel.

2. What does Death change his realm's landscape to at the end of the book?
(a) Mountains.
(b) A river.
(c) Corn fields.
(d) The ocean.

3. What begins showering from the top of the pyramid?
(a) Fabric.
(b) Leaflets.
(c) Food.
(d) Flowers.

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

5. Who does the person performing a séance summon during the ceremony?
(a) Senior Wrangler.
(b) One-Man-Bucket.
(c) Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler.
(d) Reg Shoe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who acts carelessly during a fight at the university and sends off a fireball?

2. Who predicts Windle Poons' death in a letter given to him near the end of the book?

3. Who wonders if the ants inside the pyramid have a queen?

4. Who is sitting on a beam and talks to Bill Door after his lifetimer empties?

5. Who remembers when this all will be again at the end of the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why can't Bill Door pick up his scythe when he becomes a ghost?

2. How is the inside of the pyramid described when Windle Poons and the others first enter it?

3. What does Bill Door tell Miss Flitworth about the nature of borrowed time?

4. What is the nature of the leaflets Windle Poons finds coming from the top of the pyramid?

5. How does Bill Door feel about the person who replaced him as the persona of Death?

6. How does Bill Door become Death once again?

7. What does Windle Poons say he has learned about himself after dying at the end of the book?

8. How is Mrs. Cake's séance with One-Man-Bucket described?

9. How do Miss Flitworth and Bill Door try to save their harvest during a hailstorm?

10. How does Schleppel help people escape the pink tubing in the book?

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