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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. What do the townsfolk refer to Bill Door as?

2. What is the name of the bashful banshee who passes notes?

3. What is the name of the wife of the male vampire at the Fresh Start Club?

4. Who owns the piece of furniture in which the mysterious object first begins appearing in the book?

5. How old is the wizard that is dying at the beginning of the book?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Bill Door react after Miss Flitworth asks him to help her kill rats and a chicken?

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

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

5. How do the wizards try to attack Windle Poons after he comes back from the dead?

6. What happens when Mrs. Cake contacts One-Man-Bucket for the first time in the book?

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

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

9. What does Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler tell Sergeant Colon is happening in his cellar?

10. What does the gray robes that the wizards conjure tell them about Death?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the portrayal of the concept of dreams in the book. How does the author use Bill Door's dream about his death to foreshadow and carry the story along, and what purpose might he have for doing this?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the concept of principles that is presented in the book. How does Death's principles define him even in his human form as Bill Door, and what does this suggest about the nature of his character?

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