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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cutwell answer when Mort asks if it is possible to walk through walls without using magic?
(a) Anything is possible if you believe in it.
(b) Pick thin walls.
(c) He has never tried.
(d) Of course not, don't be daft.

2. Why does Ysabell pinch Mort?
(a) To keep him from walking in the room.
(b) To make sure he is alive.
(c) Because he had a bug on him.
(d) To show him who is boss.

3. What does Mort realize is happening?
(a) The ice giants are trying to get loose.
(b) Reality is destroying itself.
(c) Magic is working on the disk.
(d) Reality is healing itself.

4. What does Mort give Binky once he is through the wall?
(a) A sugar cube.
(b) A note to take to Death.
(c) A handful of hay.
(d) A pat on the head.

5. What does the man ask when Mort asks if he dies often?
(a) I can't remember.
(b) Every year it seems like.
(c) A fair bit.
(d) This is the first.

6. What does the king say after he realizes it is Death that stands before him?
(a) Please spare my daughter.
(b) I can pay you anything for more time.
(c) I didn't expect you so soon.
(d) I didn't think you turned up in person for me.

7. What does Mort NOT smell when he sniffs the scumble?
(a) Autumn mornings.
(b) Apples.
(c) The bottom of a log pile.
(d) Flowers.

8. What does Lezek seem to believe that Death's occupation is?
(a) Hangman.
(b) Coroner.
(c) Some sort of medical profession.
(d) Undertaking.

9. Why does the witch, Goodie Hamstring, explain that Death doesn't like magical people?
(a) They smell funny.
(b) They have control over Death.
(c) They give him a hard time.
(d) They try to avoid Death.

10. What do the men in the tavern notice about the way that Mort looks?
(a) They seem to know him and not know him at the same time.
(b) He looks more solid compared to everything else.
(c) It is hard to make their eyes focus on him.
(d) He looks more transluscent than everything else.

11. What does the abbot say about each of his lives?
(a) He can't remember them while he is alive.
(b) He wishes he could be done with it.
(c) It makes toilet training a lot easier.
(d) He gets all the memories mixed up.

12. What does Mort hear that makes him feel rather homesick?
(a) Children laughing.
(b) People in a tavern singing.
(c) A bird that had been native to his home.
(d) A woman singing.

13. What do the men in the Shades tell Mort they are going to do?
(a) Alleviate his wordly burdens from him.
(b) Kill him and take his money.
(c) Steal his horse.
(d) Help him find out if there is an afterlife.

14. What does Lezek say when Mort says he will be sure to write?
(a) He says it might be best to wait until he is secure in his position.
(b) He says it doesn't matter one way or the other.
(c) He says he is sure someone who can read it will happen by.
(d) He says it will make Mort's mother happy.

15. What does Death explain is the reason that kings get the sword instead of a scythe?
(a) It is tradition.
(b) It is because of the royal blood.
(c) He lost a bet.
(d) It is a royal perogative.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is scumble said to be mainly made of?

2. What are the items called that pour the moments of every living person's life from the future into the past?

3. What does Goodie say she is going to do when Mort says he is supposed to take her spirit away?

4. What does Mort give the guard at the gate so that he can gain admittance?

5. Which of the following is NOT said about cabbages?

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