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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Mort hear that makes him feel rather homesick?
(a) A bird that had been native to his home.
(b) People in a tavern singing.
(c) Children laughing.
(d) A woman singing.
2. What does Mort decide he will do once he is feeling homesick?
(a) Resign his position with Death.
(b) Go home.
(c) Go have a drink.
(d) Go play with the children.
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 can Mort tell is at the center of the dome he is watching?
(a) Lot Stat.
(b) A temple where Death is worshiped.
(c) The tavern he has just been in.
(d) Ankh-Morpork.
5. 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.
6. What does Lezek speculate might be one thing that people look at when choosing an apprentice?
(a) The back of their ears.
(b) Read tea leaves.
(c) The look of a person's teeth.
(d) Look for birthmarks.
7. What does the king say after he realizes it is Death that stands before him?
(a) I can pay you anything for more time.
(b) I didn't expect you so soon.
(c) I didn't think you turned up in person for me.
(d) Please spare my daughter.
8. What does Death tell Mort is the reason that his father is acting so strangely when he is questioning Death?
(a) Lezek has been put under a calming effect.
(b) Lezek is in deep shock.
(c) Lezek is drunk.
(d) Lezek doesn't see or hear what Mort sees.
9. What is on the porch of the house that Mort stops at first while out with Binky?
(a) Hay.
(b) A plate of cookies and milk.
(c) A broken rocker.
(d) A wood pile.
10. What does Lezek say when Mort says he will be sure to write?
(a) He says it will make Mort's mother happy.
(b) He says it doesn't matter one way or the other.
(c) He says he is sure someone who can read it will happen by.
(d) He says it might be best to wait until he is secure in his position.
11. What does Mort compare Ysabel's eyebrows to?
(a) Nothing this world has ever seen before.
(b) Mating caterpillars.
(c) Two fighting dust bunnies.
(d) Wild yeti fighting for the piece of tundra.
12. What is the reason that the Gods haven't sent an avalanche to destroy the Listeners?
(a) They are curious as to what will be heard.
(b) The Listeners have made a pact with the Gods.
(c) The Listeners are destined to save the world.
(d) They are greatly appreciative of what the Listeners have accomplished.
13. 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 be reincarnated.
(b) She is going to stay.
(c) She is going to go to the stars.
(d) She wants to return to her old body.
14. What shocks the patrons of the tavern when Mort leaves?
(a) He vanishes.
(b) His horse comes in the tavern to get him.
(c) He walks through a solid door.
(d) Death arrives to fetch him.
15. What does Lezek seem to believe that Death's occupation is?
(a) Hangman.
(b) Some sort of medical profession.
(c) Undertaking.
(d) Coroner.
Short Answer Questions
1. What decorates most of the doors in Death's house?
2. Who does Goodie say that Death does like?
3. What does Death say he has done with Mort's father?
4. What does Mort give the guard at the gate so that he can gain admittance?
5. What do the men in the tavern notice about the way that Mort looks?
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