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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is customarily present at the death of a wizard, but was not when the wizard was dying?

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

3. How does the narrator describe the relationship between the Unseen University and the Patrician?

4. Who secretly follows Windle Poons home after his first meeting of the Fresh Start Club?

5. What does the Archchancellor scold Windle Poons for his lack of when trying to make him die again?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Windle's friends react after he comes back from the dead?

2. How does Death find a job after taking of the persona of Bill Door?

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

4. How is Miss Flitwotrh's parlor described in the book?

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

6. How does Bill Door react when Miss Flitworth tells him to save a little girl from a fire?

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

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

9. What happens when Bill Door sees a gray figure with his shattered lifetimer in the barn during a dream?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Windle Poons as a wizard to what he becomes when he is undead. How is Windle Poons able to grow more emotionally and find more fulfillment through his undeath and what might the author be saying about the importance of living a full life through his character?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the symbolism that dance has in the book. What significance do the two dances, the Morris dance and the harvest dance, have in the portrayal of the circle of life in the book?

Essay Topic 3

Humanity is a theme examined throughout the book, especially when compared to the lives of wizards and other paranormal beings. Part 1.) How is humanity put to test in the novel from the invasion of the city eggs? Part 2.) How is Windle Poons' opinion of humanity changed after he becomes undead? Part 3.) What lessons does Death learn about humanity while living as Bill Door?

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