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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Lezek say when Mort says he will be sure to write?
(a) He says it doesn't matter one way or the other.
(b) He says it will make Mort's mother happy.
(c) He says it might be best to wait until he is secure in his position.
(d) He says he is sure someone who can read it will happen by.

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

4. What surprises Mort when he looks at Death for the first time?
(a) That he can stand without any muscle mass.
(b) That he is real.
(c) That he is completely visible.
(d) That he isn't afraid.

5. Why does Death explain that people don't seem to see him?
(a) It is magic.
(b) They won't allow themselves to.
(c) Death alters their minds.
(d) Human eyes can't see beyond this world.

6. What does Keli appoint Cutwell to do?
(a) Be the queens new advisor.
(b) Be the Royal Recognizer.
(c) Mop her floors.
(d) Find a way to get her to Death's realm.

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

8. After seeing the strange dome around Sto Lat why doesn't Mort realize that everything will fix itself to what it should be if he simply doesn't interfere again?
(a) He was blinded by his love for Keli.
(b) He wasn't that advanced in his training.
(c) Panic was in the driver seat.
(d) Logic took the night off.

9. What does the king say after he realizes it is Death that stands before him?
(a) I didn't expect you so soon.
(b) I didn't think you turned up in person for me.
(c) I can pay you anything for more time.
(d) Please spare my daughter.

10. Who does Goodie say that Death does like?
(a) Farmers.
(b) Thieves.
(c) Priests.
(d) Milkmen.

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

12. 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.

13. What happens to the owl that Mort watches fly through the iridescent wall?
(a) It dies.
(b) Nothing.
(c) It disappears.
(d) It comes through moving very slowly on the other side.

14. What problem does Princess Keli have after Mort saves her life?
(a) She begins to walk through walls.
(b) She can hear voices of other spirits.
(c) No one seems to realize she is alive.
(d) She starts having terrible nightmares.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What would the monks yell when someone got close to their holy temple?

2. What does Ysabell explain that everything in Death's home is?

3. What card does Keli draw from the Caroc cards?

4. What task does Death give Mort on Mort's first day after Mort admits that he wishes to know the secrets of the universe?

5. What does Mort NOT smell when he sniffs the scumble?

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