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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Mort get up the courage to ask Death?
(a) If he can have a horse of his own.
(b) If he is a servant or an apprentice.
(c) If he can have his own scythe.
(d) For an afternoon off.

6. Who does Goodie leave directions with regarding her personal belongings?
(a) Her apprentice.
(b) An imaginary friend.
(c) Her dog.
(d) Her cat.

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

8. 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.

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

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

11. What would the monks yell when someone got close to their holy temple?
(a) Call out various names.
(b) Keep the bloody noise down.
(c) We don't want whatever you are selling.
(d) Remove your shoes... they make too much noise.

12. 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 be born again.
(d) He will begin his life as a tree.

13. What does Death explain is the reason that kings get the sword instead of a scythe?
(a) He lost a bet.
(b) It is because of the royal blood.
(c) It is a royal perogative.
(d) It is tradition.

14. What does the father of the Klatchain house tell Mort when Mort admits to being a demon?
(a) That it is good luck to help a demon.
(b) That demons are what they worship.
(c) That he has studied demons for years.
(d) That they want to ask after their departed family members.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mort go on his day off?

2. What is the witch, Goodie Hamstring, doing when Mort enters?

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

4. What do the men in the tavern notice about the way that Mort looks?

5. What does Ysabell explain that everything in Death's home is?

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