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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

5. 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 looks like he has seen things no one sees and lives.
(c) He looks now as if he knows too much rather than too little.
(d) He has doubled in muscle mass.

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

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

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

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

10. What does Mort NOT smell when he sniffs the scumble?
(a) Autumn mornings.
(b) Apples.
(c) Flowers.
(d) The bottom of a log pile.

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

12. What sensation does Mort feel when he first walks through the iridescent wall?
(a) It creates a burning sensation against the skin.
(b) It makes his head hurt.
(c) It tingles.
(d) It makes his soul wince.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Death say can see him in his true form?

3. Who tells Mort to be impressed by the wizard?

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

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

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