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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Lezek warn Mort not to tell people about?
(a) How he scares birds.
(b) His theories on the sun.
(c) That he wants to know how the universe works.
(d) The fact that he can read.

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

5. 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.

6. What do the men in the Shades tell Mort they are going to do?
(a) Kill him and take his money.
(b) Steal his horse.
(c) Help him find out if there is an afterlife.
(d) Alleviate his wordly burdens from him.

7. What is on the porch of the house that Mort stops at first while out with Binky?
(a) A plate of cookies and milk.
(b) A wood pile.
(c) Hay.
(d) A broken rocker.

8. What does Cutwell explain after looking at Keli's palm?
(a) Her life has traveled to another parallel universe.
(b) She is dead.
(c) He has never seen anything like this before.
(d) She has changed the future.

9. How often do magicians say that million to one chances turn up?
(a) Nine times out of ten.
(b) Sixty percent of the time.
(c) Three fourths of the time.
(d) Almost every time.

10. What does Keli ask the maid the location of?
(a) The wizard, Cutwell.
(b) The royal bathhouse.
(c) The town priest.
(d) The way to Death's home.

11. What does Death go to do when he tells Mort that some things make him really angry?
(a) Help a hamster that a little boy forgot to feed.
(b) Fish a bag of dead kittens out of the river.
(c) Go to a box with a starved puppy in it.
(d) Gets a dead fish out of the sewer.

12. 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?
(a) Logic took the night off.
(b) Panic was in the driver seat.
(c) He was blinded by his love for Keli.
(d) He wasn't that advanced in his training.

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Death say is the reason that the King doesn't feel sad?

3. What did Death give Mort before Mort left?

4. What does Mort decide he will do once he is feeling homesick?

5. Where does the abbot explain what he has might be called?

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