View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bill Door say to Miss Flitworth just as Death appears on a horse?

2. Who is Miss Flitworth reunited with after she dies?

3. Who appears to Death after he sends a friend away at the end of the book?

4. What does Bill Door tell Miss Flitworth that borrowed time is when he tells her he is also living on it?

5. What does Bill Door tell Miss Flitworth the gray-robed figures that appear around them are?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the nature of Bill Door's request for Ned Simnel to destroy his scythe?

2. How do Miss Flitworth and Bill Door try to save their harvest during a hailstorm?

3. How does Archchancellor Ridcully defeat a living compost heap in the book?

4. What does Miss Flitworth do when Death reveals she is dead?

5. How does Death retrieve the Fear of Offer diamond?

6. What does Bill Door reveal to Miss Flitworth when she tells him her first name?

7. How is the combination harvester first described?

8. What is in Miss Flitworth's three chests she keeps on her dresser?

9. How are city eggs first described?

10. How does Windle Poons break into the library of the Unseen University?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the nature of the persona of Bill Door that is portrayed in the book. Part 1.) What does Death becoming Bill Door allow him to learn about the nature of the world that he wasn't able to grasp as the persona of Death? Part 2.) How did this persona allow him to grow as a person?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

The concept of death is the leading theme in the book's overall message to readers. Part 1.) What can we learn about the nature of how others perceive death based on the narrator's suggestion that is created by our feelings toward it? Part 2.) How does Death's escape into the world as Bill Door suggest flaws in our perceptions of the nature of death? Part 3.) How can it be argued that death is the central theme found in the book?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 730 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample