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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the men in the Shades tell Mort they are going to do?
(a) Alleviate his wordly burdens from him.
(b) Help him find out if there is an afterlife.
(c) Kill him and take his money.
(d) Steal his horse.

2. What job does Death find employment as?
(a) A butcher.
(b) An executioner.
(c) A gardener.
(d) A fry cook.

3. What does Keli appoint Cutwell to do?
(a) Mop her floors.
(b) Find a way to get her to Death's realm.
(c) Be the queens new advisor.
(d) Be the Royal Recognizer.

4. What is the main thing the Listeners are trying to figure out?
(a) If a tree falls in the woods what does it say.
(b) Which came first, the alphabet or words.
(c) What the Creator said when he created the Disc.
(d) The language of love.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the abbot say he believes might be happening very soon?

3. Who tells Mort to be impressed by the wizard?

4. What is Cutwell supposed to produce for Keli's coronation?

5. What does Death tell the angry woman that enters the employment agency in order to get her to leave?

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