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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who appears and gives Windle Poons a note of a death prediction?
(a) The Patrician.
(b) The Bursar.
(c) Sergeant Colon.
(d) Senior Wrangler.

2. Who is sitting on a beam and talks to Bill Door after his lifetimer empties?
(a) Azrael.
(b) Arthur.
(c) Death-Of-Rats.
(d) Schleppel.

3. What do the wizards of the Unseen University behave like when Windle and the others find them in the pyramid?
(a) Happy.
(b) Sad.
(c) In a trance.
(d) Excited.

4. Who does Windle Poons ask Mrs. Cake to look after for him when he is ready to die?
(a) Albert.
(b) Lupine.
(c) The Dean.
(d) Modo.

5. Where does Death take Miss Flitworth near the end of the book?
(a) The Morris dance.
(b) The harvest dance.
(c) The gold dance.
(d) The silver dance.

6. What does Bill Door say to Miss Flitworth just as Death appears on a horse?
(a) "I can't go on".
(b) "Its not right".
(c) "I don't want to go".
(d) "Do i have to".

7. What does Mrs. Cake say there is an imbalance in life force between?
(a) God and the devil.
(b) Good and evil.
(c) The present world and the astral.
(d) Heaven and hell.

8. Who turns into a bat?
(a) Albert.
(b) Schleppel.
(c) Modo.
(d) Arthur.

9. What does Miss Flitworth realize Bill Door's arm really is when she touches it?
(a) Muscle.
(b) Flesh.
(c) Bone.
(d) Fat.

10. Who does Bill Door say is the only person with a hot enough furnace for him to use to fulfill his goals?
(a) Schleppel.
(b) The Patrician.
(c) Windle Poons.
(d) Ned Simnel.

11. Which of the following things does Bill Door NOT use to sharpen his weapon on?
(a) The first rays of dawn.
(b) Silk.
(c) Hair.
(d) Cobweb.

12. What is the name of the world's largest diamond in the book?
(a) The sphinx.
(b) Zincolia.
(c) Tear of Offer.
(d) Prelioxis.

13. Who wonders if the ants inside the pyramid have a queen?
(a) Schleppel.
(b) Lupine.
(c) Modo.
(d) Ludmilla.

14. Which of the following things is not in the chest of Miss Flitworth's that does not contain gold?
(a) Photographs.
(b) A music box.
(c) A wedding veil.
(d) White shoes.

15. What does Bill Door tell Miss Flitworth he regrets when he realizes he is about to die?
(a) Not preparing more.
(b) Never having a child.
(c) Not eating more.
(d) Not falling in love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What interrupts the wizards' discussions of how to fight the ghosts at the Unseen University?

2. Who does Bill Door hire to destroy his scythe?

3. What does Modo realize has begun to move on its own, and later attacks him?

4. What kind of weapon does Bill Door use in the book?

5. Who gives Bill Door some sand from their lifetimer after his empties?

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