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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 cheers up Terpsic when he is plunged beneath the waters and believes he is about to die?
(a) To know that this will be a great fishing story.
(b) To think that his wife will be a widow.
(c) To know that he will go see his passed family members.
(d) That he died while fishing.

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

3. How often do magicians say that million to one chances turn up?
(a) Three fourths of the time.
(b) Sixty percent of the time.
(c) Nine times out of ten.
(d) Almost every time.

4. What does Mort notice when Death walks through a crowd?
(a) The people seem to become translucent.
(b) Death goes through people like smoke.
(c) Death is able to fly over people.
(d) Wherever Death is, people drift out of the way.

5. What does Albert see in Mort's eyes that frightens him that is different from Death's eyes?
(a) Hatred, love and disappointment.
(b) A changing that could not be described.
(c) Vengeance, cruelty and distaste.
(d) Desperation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cutwell explain happened to the author of the book?

2. What does Mort give the guard at the gate so that he can gain admittance?

3. What does Mort compare Ysabel's eyebrows to?

4. What does the abbot say about each of his lives?

5. How old does Cutwell say he is when the princess calls him old?

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