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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 122-158.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Death answer when he is asked if he is a friend of the Patrician?
(a) No. He doesn't have friends.
(b) They are soon to be very well acquainted.
(c) He knows almost everyone eventually.
(d) The Patrician puts business his way.

2. Which of the following is NOT said about cabbages?
(a) They have saved many a drowning cat.
(b) They are valuable roughage and have commendable food value.
(c) They have a high vitamin content.
(d) They have never inspired a poet unless he was starving.

3. What task does Death give Mort on Mort's first day after Mort admits that he wishes to know the secrets of the universe?
(a) Dig potatoes.
(b) Start studying Death's memoirs.
(c) Shovel horse dung.
(d) Clean the kitchen.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cutwell say about the dome that reality has created?

2. What is the witch, Goodie Hamstring, doing when Mort enters?

3. Who does Goodie leave directions with regarding her personal belongings?

4. What do the men in the tavern notice about the way that Mort looks?

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

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