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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 is Keli's experience that gives her a problem with the door knocker?
(a) She had been bitten once by a door.
(b) Doors ususally open themselves.
(c) She isn't used to doors talking.
(d) Different magical lands lay on the other side of talking doors.

2. What does Death say is the reason that the King doesn't feel sad?
(a) Death is where we are all meant to go.
(b) Shock he supposes.
(c) There are no tears where the king is headed.
(d) Emotions get left behind in the glands.

3. How much talent for horticulture is Mort as described as having?
(a) The same as his father.
(b) No one was sure since Mort didn't try.
(c) Very little but there was a lot of hope.
(d) The same as a dead starfish.

4. How many times does the abbot explain he has been reincarnated?
(a) More than a hundred.
(b) You aren't alowed to count.
(c) Fifty-three times or so.
(d) Just three, but he is working on more.

5. What does Death go to do when he tells Mort that some things make him really angry?
(a) Fish a bag of dead kittens out of the river.
(b) Gets a dead fish out of the sewer.
(c) Help a hamster that a little boy forgot to feed.
(d) Go to a box with a starved puppy in it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Death say about his job?

2. What does the 103-year-old woman comment on when Mort arrives to take her?

3. What does Mort finally say he knows he wants?

4. What had Mort done when he saved Keli's life?

5. What sensation does Mort feel when he first walks through the iridescent wall?

(see the answer key)

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