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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 have a high vitamin content.
(b) They have never inspired a poet unless he was starving.
(c) They are valuable roughage and have commendable food value.
(d) They have saved many a drowning cat.

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

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

4. What does Mort compare Ysabel's eyebrows to?
(a) Wild yeti fighting for the piece of tundra.
(b) Nothing this world has ever seen before.
(c) Two fighting dust bunnies.
(d) Mating caterpillars.

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

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

7. 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.

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

9. What does Death say he has done with Mort's father?
(a) Wiped his memory away.
(b) Frozen him.
(c) Put him into a dream state.
(d) Set him outside time for a moment.

10. Who is Mort thinking of when he arrives in Ankh-Morpork?
(a) Princess Keli.
(b) Ysabel.
(c) His family.
(d) What fun things he is going to do in town.

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

12. What decorates most of the doors in Death's house?
(a) Scenes of the apocalypse.
(b) Incantations.
(c) Pictures of kittens playing.
(d) Skull and bones.

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

14. What does the 103-year-old woman comment on when Mort arrives to take her?
(a) How much weight he has gained.
(b) What a polite young man he is.
(c) How very nice it is to be done with her old body.
(d) How pale Mort is.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times does the abbot explain he has been reincarnated?

2. What does Death say it will be when the Great A'Tuin dies?

3. Why does Death explain that people don't seem to see him?

4. What does the man ask when Mort asks if he dies often?

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

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