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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What type of plants grow on the magical soil?
(a) Troll flowers.
(b) Talking plants.
(c) Preannuals.
(d) Reannuals.

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?
(a) Clean the kitchen.
(b) Start studying Death's memoirs.
(c) Dig potatoes.
(d) Shovel horse dung.

6. Which of these does Mort NOT say about Ysabell while they are walking to the pond?
(a) Her taste in clothes rivals that of the criminally insane.
(b) Her eyes are liek two juugly poached eggs.
(c) She looks like she has been eating doughnuts in a wardrobe for years.
(d) Her hair looks like a wet hedge hog.

7. Why does Ysabell pinch Mort?
(a) To keep him from walking in the room.
(b) To show him who is boss.
(c) To make sure he is alive.
(d) Because he had a bug on him.

8. What is the main thing the Listeners are trying to figure out?
(a) Which came first, the alphabet or words.
(b) What the Creator said when he created the Disc.
(c) If a tree falls in the woods what does it say.
(d) The language of love.

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

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

11. What changes have NOT taken place in Mort as is described when he walks into the tavern?
(a) His knees and elbows seem to have migrated to the right spots.
(b) He has doubled in muscle mass.
(c) He looks now as if he knows too much rather than too little.
(d) He looks like he has seen things no one sees and lives.

12. What is scumble said to be mainly made of?
(a) No one is certain.
(b) Apples.
(c) Various fruits.
(d) Possibly the fat of a rancid hog.

13. How are men that are reannual growers described?
(a) Serious men who closely examine the calendar.
(b) Strong men that consult the stars.
(c) Imaginary.
(d) Loving men who talk to the plants.

14. Why does the witch, Goodie Hamstring, explain that Death doesn't like magical people?
(a) They give him a hard time.
(b) They smell funny.
(c) They have control over Death.
(d) They try to avoid Death.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lezek seem to believe that Death's occupation is?

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

3. Who does Goodie say that Death does like?

4. What does the king say after he realizes it is Death that stands before him?

5. What does Mort finally say he knows he wants?

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