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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What do the men in the tavern notice about the way that Mort looks?
(a) He looks more transluscent than everything else.
(b) They seem to know him and not know him at the same time.
(c) It is hard to make their eyes focus on him.
(d) He looks more solid compared to everything else.

5. What does Ysabell explain that everything in Death's home is?
(a) A copy of something.
(b) His own unique creation.
(c) There simply to amuse Ysabel.
(d) Made by the Creator.

6. Who is the second person that Mort is sent to see to on his own?
(a) The high priest.
(b) A little orphan girl.
(c) The 88th abbot.
(d) A monkey trainer.

7. What can Mort tell is at the center of the dome he is watching?
(a) The tavern he has just been in.
(b) Lot Stat.
(c) A temple where Death is worshiped.
(d) Ankh-Morpork.

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

9. What does Mort hear that makes him feel rather homesick?
(a) A bird that had been native to his home.
(b) A woman singing.
(c) Children laughing.
(d) People in a tavern singing.

10. What colors is Death's house decorated in?
(a) Purples and black.
(b) Grey and white.
(c) Green..nothing but green.
(d) Every color imaginable.

11. What does Death say he is in town looking for?
(a) An orphanage is about to catch on fire.
(b) An apprentice.
(c) A old wizard came into town and is about out of time.
(d) A man who is about to choke on a piece of meat pie.

12. Where does Mort go on his day off?
(a) Ankh-Morpork.
(b) Home to see his family.
(c) To the ocean.
(d) To the pyramids.

13. What does Mort give the guard at the gate so that he can gain admittance?
(a) A head of cabbage.
(b) Gold coins.
(c) A book.
(d) The horse he is riding.

14. What does the abbot say he believes might be happening very soon?
(a) He will be born again.
(b) He will be conceived.
(c) He will begin his life as a tree.
(d) He will have to go to Never Land.

15. Who are the Listeners?
(a) People who commune with the dead.
(b) The oldest religous sect on Discworld.
(c) A group of audio-scientists.
(d) A basketball team.

Short Answer Questions

1. What changes have NOT taken place in Mort as is described when he walks into the tavern?

2. 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?

3. What does Mort see when he looks in Death's empty eye sockets?

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

5. What is the magic word that the door knocker tells Princess Keli to use?

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