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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 about each of his lives?
(a) He wishes he could be done with it.
(b) He can't remember them while he is alive.
(c) He gets all the memories mixed up.
(d) It makes toilet training a lot easier.

2. What happens to the owner of the tavern after the strange mist wall comes through the tavern?
(a) The owner's shirt is different.
(b) The owner falls over asleep.
(c) The owner suddenly becomes a ghost.
(d) The owner suddenly has no hair and a mustache.

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

4. What does Lezek say happened to Mort because his grandmother taught him how to read?
(a) It didn't have any effect at all.
(b) It gave him rather liberal ideals.
(c) His mind overheated.
(d) It made him as mad as a wet hen.

5. Who does Mort contact in order to try and find a way into the castle?
(a) Death.
(b) A renowned theif.
(c) Ysabel.
(d) A wizard.

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

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

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

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

10. How much talent for horticulture is Mort as described as having?
(a) No one was sure since Mort didn't try.
(b) Very little but there was a lot of hope.
(c) The same as a dead starfish.
(d) The same as his father.

11. Who is the second person that Mort is sent to see to on his own?
(a) A little orphan girl.
(b) A monkey trainer.
(c) The high priest.
(d) The 88th abbot.

12. 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) A broken rocker.
(d) Hay.

13. What does Cutwell answer when Mort asks if it is possible to walk through walls without using magic?
(a) Pick thin walls.
(b) He has never tried.
(c) Anything is possible if you believe in it.
(d) Of course not, don't be daft.

14. What does Mort notice when Death walks through a crowd?
(a) The people seem to become translucent.
(b) Wherever Death is, people drift out of the way.
(c) Death goes through people like smoke.
(d) Death is able to fly over people.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cutwell explain after looking at Keli's palm?

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

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

4. Who is Mort thinking of when he arrives in Ankh-Morpork?

5. What does Death tell Mort is the reason that his father is acting so strangely when he is questioning Death?

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