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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had Mort done when he saved Keli's life?
(a) Destroyed Death's faith in him.
(b) Destroyed the peaceful future that was to come.
(c) Started a war.
(d) Split reality into two seperate lines.

2. What does the man ask when Mort asks if he dies often?
(a) This is the first.
(b) Every year it seems like.
(c) I can't remember.
(d) A fair bit.

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

4. What shocks the patrons of the tavern when Mort leaves?
(a) He vanishes.
(b) He walks through a solid door.
(c) His horse comes in the tavern to get him.
(d) Death arrives to fetch him.

5. What is the witch, Goodie Hamstring, doing when Mort enters?
(a) Finishing off all her liquor.
(b) Taking a bath.
(c) Writing her will.
(d) Feeding the cat.

6. What does Mort give Binky once he is through the wall?
(a) A pat on the head.
(b) A handful of hay.
(c) A note to take to Death.
(d) A sugar cube.

7. What does Ysabell NOT say about Mort while walking to the pond?
(a) His hair looks like he cleans a privy with it.
(b) He has the manners of a drunken buffalo in a black wedding gown.
(c) She wouldn't marry him if he were the last man on the Disc.
(d) His legs couldn't stop a pig in a passageway.

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

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

10. What does Lezek say when Mort says he will be sure to write?
(a) He says it might be best to wait until he is secure in his position.
(b) He says it will make Mort's mother happy.
(c) He says he is sure someone who can read it will happen by.
(d) He says it doesn't matter one way or the other.

11. What does Mort's family do with the grapes grown on the magical hill?
(a) Trades them to the gnomes and fairies of the area.
(b) Puts them into breakfast foods.
(c) Makes raisins.
(d) Makes wine.

12. What does Death say that curry is like?
(a) Eating glass noodles.
(b) Drinking dry water.
(c) Chewing hard gum.
(d) Biting a red hot ice cube.

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

14. How many times does the abbot explain he has been reincarnated?
(a) Just three, but he is working on more.
(b) You aren't alowed to count.
(c) More than a hundred.
(d) Fifty-three times or so.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lezek warn Mort not to tell people about?

2. Which of the following is NOT said about cabbages?

3. What does Mort give the guard at the gate so that he can gain admittance?

4. What does Lezek speculate might be one thing that people look at when choosing an apprentice?

5. What surprises Mort when he looks at Death for the first time?

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