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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 158-197.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are the items called that pour the moments of every living person's life from the future into the past?
(a) Time trackers.
(b) Mortal hour glasses.
(c) Life-timers.
(d) Duma flitches.

3. What does Terpsic hate doing?
(a) Catching a fish.
(b) Cooking the fish.
(c) Working.
(d) Cleaning the fish.

4. What does Mort's second charge say when Mort enters the room?
(a) I have had a wonderful life.
(b) You're late.
(c) Why are you here?
(d) I thought you must have got the days mixed up.

5. What do the men in the Shades tell Mort they are going to do?
(a) Help him find out if there is an afterlife.
(b) Steal his horse.
(c) Kill him and take his money.
(d) Alleviate his wordly burdens from him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the abbot say he believes might be happening very soon?

2. Where does Mort go on his day off?

3. Who is the second person that Mort is sent to see to on his own?

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

5. What is the reason that the Gods haven't sent an avalanche to destroy the Listeners?

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