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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Goodie say she is going to do when Mort says he is supposed to take her spirit away?
(a) She is going to go to the stars.
(b) She wants to return to her old body.
(c) She is going to be reincarnated.
(d) She is going to stay.

2. Who does Goodie say that Death does like?
(a) Milkmen.
(b) Priests.
(c) Farmers.
(d) Thieves.

3. What does Keli appoint Cutwell to do?
(a) Mop her floors.
(b) Find a way to get her to Death's realm.
(c) Be the queens new advisor.
(d) Be the Royal Recognizer.

4. What does Death say it will be when the Great A'Tuin dies?
(a) The beginning of the end.
(b) A sad day.
(c) The end of humanity.
(d) A challenge.

5. 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) Hay.
(c) A broken rocker.
(d) A wood pile.

6. What does Mort realize is happening?
(a) The ice giants are trying to get loose.
(b) Reality is destroying itself.
(c) Reality is healing itself.
(d) Magic is working on the disk.

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

8. What does the 103-year-old woman comment on when Mort arrives to take her?
(a) How much weight he has gained.
(b) How very nice it is to be done with her old body.
(c) How pale Mort is.
(d) What a polite young man he is.

9. What task does Death give Mort on Mort's first day after Mort admits that he wishes to know the secrets of the universe?
(a) Dig potatoes.
(b) Clean the kitchen.
(c) Shovel horse dung.
(d) Start studying Death's memoirs.

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

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

12. Which of these does Mort NOT say about Ysabell while they are walking to the pond?
(a) She looks like she has been eating doughnuts in a wardrobe for years.
(b) Her eyes are liek two juugly poached eggs.
(c) Her taste in clothes rivals that of the criminally insane.
(d) Her hair looks like a wet hedge hog.

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

14. What type of plants grow on the magical soil?
(a) Preannuals.
(b) Troll flowers.
(c) Reannuals.
(d) Talking plants.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mort see when he looks in Death's empty eye sockets?

2. How many times does the abbot explain he has been reincarnated?

3. What does Lezek say happened to Mort because his grandmother taught him how to read?

4. What colors is Death's house decorated in?

5. What problem does Princess Keli have after Mort saves her life?

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