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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 197-243.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Death tell the angry woman that enters the employment agency in order to get her to leave?
(a) That he will give her money to leave.
(b) May all the demons of hell rend your living spirit.
(c) Begone, you black and midnight hag.
(d) That he will ahve the searing winds of infinity scorch her worthless carcass.

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

3. What animal does Cutwell choose for the sacrificial animal for the princess' coronation?
(a) A fat goat.
(b) A snail.
(c) An elephant.
(d) A partially dead chicken.

4. What does Mort NOT smell when he sniffs the scumble?
(a) Autumn mornings.
(b) The bottom of a log pile.
(c) Apples.
(d) Flowers.

5. What does Ysabell tell Mort and Albert?
(a) That there is a trick and the key is in Death's eyes.
(b) That she can do the nodes.
(c) That she knows who can do the nodes.
(d) That Binky knows how.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cutwell answer when Mort asks if it is possible to walk through walls without using magic?

2. What feeling does Death get when he fails at walking through a wall?

3. What references does Mort find that let him know that this is in fact Albert's life history?

4. What are the items called that pour the moments of every living person's life from the future into the past?

5. How much talent for horticulture is Mort as described as having?

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