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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 158-197.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT said about cabbages?
(a) They are valuable roughage and have commendable food value.
(b) They have saved many a drowning cat.
(c) They have never inspired a poet unless he was starving.
(d) They have a high vitamin content.

2. What does Ysabell NOT say about Mort while walking to the pond?
(a) She wouldn't marry him if he were the last man on the Disc.
(b) His hair looks like he cleans a privy with it.
(c) His legs couldn't stop a pig in a passageway.
(d) He has the manners of a drunken buffalo in a black wedding gown.

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

4. What happens to the owl that Mort watches fly through the iridescent wall?
(a) It comes through moving very slowly on the other side.
(b) Nothing.
(c) It disappears.
(d) It dies.

5. What does Albert retrieve from the trunk under his bed after Mort and Ysabell have gone?
(a) His old spell books.
(b) The copy of his agreement with Death.
(c) His wizarding robe.
(d) His hour glass.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Keli ask the maid the location of?

2. What shocks the patrons of the tavern when Mort leaves?

3. What job does Death find employment as?

4. What does Ysabell explain about the way the first of Albert's volumes was written?

5. How much time does Albert say he has left if he returns to the world?

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