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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 86-122.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mort get up the courage to ask Death?
(a) For an afternoon off.
(b) If he is a servant or an apprentice.
(c) If he can have a horse of his own.
(d) If he can have his own scythe.

2. Who does Mort contact in order to try and find a way into the castle?
(a) Ysabel.
(b) A wizard.
(c) A renowned theif.
(d) Death.

3. Why does Death explain that people don't seem to see him?
(a) It is magic.
(b) They won't allow themselves to.
(c) Human eyes can't see beyond this world.
(d) Death alters their minds.

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

5. What does Lezek warn Mort not to tell people about?
(a) The fact that he can read.
(b) That he wants to know how the universe works.
(c) His theories on the sun.
(d) How he scares birds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man ask when Mort asks if he dies often?

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

3. What does Mort's second charge say when Mort enters the room?

4. What does Goodie say she is going to do when Mort says he is supposed to take her spirit away?

5. What does Death tell Mort is the reason that his father is acting so strangely when he is questioning Death?

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