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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is scumble said to be mainly made of?
(a) Possibly the fat of a rancid hog.
(b) Apples.
(c) Various fruits.
(d) No one is certain.

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

3. What are the items called that pour the moments of every living person's life from the future into the past?
(a) Time trackers.
(b) Duma flitches.
(c) Life-timers.
(d) Mortal hour glasses.

4. What is the magic word that the door knocker tells Princess Keli to use?
(a) I'm rich.
(b) Please.
(c) Abra-cadabra.
(d) Viola.

5. What does Mort give the guard at the gate so that he can gain admittance?
(a) A book.
(b) Gold coins.
(c) A head of cabbage.
(d) The horse he is riding.

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

7. Who are the Listeners?
(a) People who commune with the dead.
(b) A group of audio-scientists.
(c) The oldest religous sect on Discworld.
(d) A basketball team.

8. What does Ysabell NOT say about Mort while walking to the pond?
(a) He has the manners of a drunken buffalo in a black wedding gown.
(b) His hair looks like he cleans a privy with it.
(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.

9. What does Keli ask Cutwell to do?
(a) Transport her to Death's house.
(b) Make her a flying carpet.
(c) Read her present.
(d) See the future of the city.

10. 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.

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

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

13. What card does Keli draw from the Caroc cards?
(a) Death.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Love.
(d) Hope.

14. What does Mort see when he looks in Death's empty eye sockets?
(a) Souls of the departed.
(b) Two blue stars.
(c) A wide array of far off visions.
(d) Fear.

15. What does Ysabell explain about her age?
(a) She is not sure of her real age.
(b) She is in her early twenties but looks much younger.
(c) She has been sixteen for thirty-five years.
(d) She is aging backwards.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Keli ask the maid the location of?

2. What does the king say after he realizes it is Death that stands before him?

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

4. What is the reason that the Gods haven't sent an avalanche to destroy the Listeners?

5. What does Mort get up the courage to ask Death?

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