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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 decorates most of the doors in Death's house?
(a) Scenes of the apocalypse.
(b) Skull and bones.
(c) Incantations.
(d) Pictures of kittens playing.

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

3. Who is the second person that Mort is sent to see to on his own?
(a) A little orphan girl.
(b) A monkey trainer.
(c) The high priest.
(d) The 88th abbot.

4. What does the abbot say he believes might be happening very soon?
(a) He will be conceived.
(b) He will be born again.
(c) He will begin his life as a tree.
(d) He will have to go to Never Land.

5. What does Death say he is in town looking for?
(a) A old wizard came into town and is about out of time.
(b) An apprentice.
(c) A man who is about to choke on a piece of meat pie.
(d) An orphanage is about to catch on fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lezek speculate might be one thing that people look at when choosing an apprentice?

2. What does Mort give the guard at the gate so that he can gain admittance?

3. What would the monks yell when someone got close to their holy temple?

4. What does Mort's family do with the grapes grown on the magical hill?

5. What does the abbot say about each of his lives?

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