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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who tells Mort to be impressed by the wizard?
(a) A house servant.
(b) The door knocker.
(c) A shoe shine boy.
(d) The guard rail.

2. What is the main thing the Listeners are trying to figure out?
(a) If a tree falls in the woods what does it say.
(b) What the Creator said when he created the Disc.
(c) Which came first, the alphabet or words.
(d) The language of love.

3. What shocks the patrons of the tavern when Mort leaves?
(a) He walks through a solid door.
(b) Death arrives to fetch him.
(c) His horse comes in the tavern to get him.
(d) He vanishes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Death say about his job?

2. What would the monks yell when someone got close to their holy temple?

3. What does Mort finally say he knows he wants?

4. What does Lezek seem to believe that Death's occupation is?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the relationship between Albert and Death as seen by Mort?

2. What changes have taken place in Mort that are described when Mort first walks into the tavern?

3. What do the men in the tavern notice about Mort?

4. What happens when Mort walks in the Shades in Ankh-Morpork?

5. Describe what happens when Mort is with Death as the king is about to be assassinated.

6. What does Ysabell tell Mort when she is explaining that Mort cannot be an apprentice?

7. What does Mort tell Ysabell about his trouble and what does she respond?

8. Explain what Mort does once he has arrived at Sto Lat.

9. Why does Lezek decide to take his son to town to become an apprentice?

10. Describe Keli's meeting with the wizard.

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