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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What does Lezek seem to believe that Death's occupation is?
(a) Coroner.
(b) Some sort of medical profession.
(c) Undertaking.
(d) Hangman.

3. Who does Mort see a painting of when he enters the tavern?
(a) Princess Keli.
(b) Wizard Cutwell.
(c) The four horsemen.
(d) A picture of what people believe heaven to be.

4. What does Mort realize is happening?
(a) Reality is destroying itself.
(b) Magic is working on the disk.
(c) The ice giants are trying to get loose.
(d) Reality is healing itself.

5. What does Death say that curry is like?
(a) Chewing hard gum.
(b) Eating glass noodles.
(c) Biting a red hot ice cube.
(d) Drinking dry water.

6. Who tells Mort to be impressed by the wizard?
(a) The guard rail.
(b) The door knocker.
(c) A shoe shine boy.
(d) A house servant.

7. What happens to the owner of the tavern after the strange mist wall comes through the tavern?
(a) The owner suddenly has no hair and a mustache.
(b) The owner falls over asleep.
(c) The owner suddenly becomes a ghost.
(d) The owner's shirt is different.

8. What is Keli's experience that gives her a problem with the door knocker?
(a) Different magical lands lay on the other side of talking doors.
(b) Doors ususally open themselves.
(c) She had been bitten once by a door.
(d) She isn't used to doors talking.

9. What does Goodie say she is going to do when Mort says he is supposed to take her spirit away?
(a) She is going to go to the stars.
(b) She is going to stay.
(c) She is going to be reincarnated.
(d) She wants to return to her old body.

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

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

12. 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.

13. What does Mort finally say he knows he wants?
(a) A fast horse.
(b) A brothel.
(c) Something to eat.
(d) A place to wash up.

14. What does Death tell Mort is the reason that his father is acting so strangely when he is questioning Death?
(a) Lezek doesn't see or hear what Mort sees.
(b) Lezek is in deep shock.
(c) Lezek has been put under a calming effect.
(d) Lezek is drunk.

15. What does Goodie say she was guaranteed as part of the arrangement?
(a) Personal attention.
(b) A happy life.
(c) A first class farewell.
(d) An extended life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Death give Mort before Mort left?

2. What is on the porch of the house that Mort stops at first while out with Binky?

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

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

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

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