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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. How does Death say that he was able to fix it so that all of them were allowed to stay in reality?

2. What does Death say will happen to the people that are involved in what Mort has done?

3. What does Cutwell say about the author of the magic book that he and Mort are looking at?

4. What references does Mort find that let him know that this is in fact Albert's life history?

5. What does Death tell Mort he prefers to goodbye?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Cutwell explain is the reason that Mort can walk through walls?

2. What does Albert do after Ysabell and Mort leave?

3. What is Cutwell able to tell Mort about the dome that is shrinking down around the palace?

4. Explain how Mort gets the information he needs from Albert.

5. What does Mort realize when Cutwell is showing him the book on magic?

6. Explain what Mort and Ysabell talk about while they are in the pyramid.

7. Describe what happens when Mort reaches the palace in Sto Lat.

8. Describe what happens when Mort and Ysabell go to find the book of Albert's life.

9. Describe Harga's House of Ribs.

10. Explain what happens to the young girl that Mort frees from her body in the pyramids.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a short story based on the thought that the Pearl that Death gave to Mort becomes a reality in its own.

Part 1) What characters take part in this story and why?

Part 2) What is this new reality like?

Essay Topic 2

Part 1) What is significant about the fact that Albert sees vengeance, cruelty and distaste when he looks in Mort's eyes?

Part 2) What does this reveal about Mort? About Death?

Essay Topic 3

Part 1) What does Ysabell mean when she says that Death cannot create, he can only make copies?

Part 2) In what ways does Death contradict the image that Ysabell and Albert create in their descriptions of him?

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