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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 45-86.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Death give Mort before Mort left?
(a) A bag of coins.
(b) A bottle filled with a magic potion.
(c) A talisman to keep him safe.
(d) A book.

3. What does Lezek say when Mort says he will be sure to write?
(a) He says it will make Mort's mother happy.
(b) He says it might be best to wait until he is secure in his position.
(c) He says it doesn't matter one way or the other.
(d) He says he is sure someone who can read it will happen by.

4. How are men that are reannual growers described?
(a) Strong men that consult the stars.
(b) Loving men who talk to the plants.
(c) Serious men who closely examine the calendar.
(d) Imaginary.

5. What does Death say that curry is like?
(a) Drinking dry water.
(b) Chewing hard gum.
(c) Biting a red hot ice cube.
(d) Eating glass noodles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprises Mort when he looks at Death for the first time?

2. What does Goodie say she was guaranteed as part of the arrangement?

3. Why does the witch, Goodie Hamstring, explain that Death doesn't like magical people?

4. What are the items called that pour the moments of every living person's life from the future into the past?

5. What does Mort notice when Death walks through a crowd?

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