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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. 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.

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

3. How many times does the abbot explain he has been reincarnated?
(a) More than a hundred.
(b) Fifty-three times or so.
(c) Just three, but he is working on more.
(d) You aren't alowed to count.

4. Why does Ysabell pinch Mort?
(a) Because he had a bug on him.
(b) To show him who is boss.
(c) To keep him from walking in the room.
(d) To make sure he is alive.

5. 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 is going to stay.
(c) She wants to return to her old body.
(d) She is going to be reincarnated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Keli ask Cutwell to do?

2. Why does the witch, Goodie Hamstring, explain that Death doesn't like magical people?

3. What does Death say he has done with Mort's father?

4. What does Mort's family do with the grapes grown on the magical hill?

5. How much talent for horticulture is Mort as described as having?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the conversation that Death and Mort have when Mort first explains that things didn't go as smoothly as they should have for the first three charges he was sent after.

2. What happens when Mort walks through the wall in the alley?

3. Describe what is going through Mort's mind when he first wakes up in Death's home.

4. Describe Keli's meeting with the wizard.

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

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

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

8. Describe what Mort asks Death for and what Death's response is.

9. What does Death explain to Mort about interfering in the natural course of events?

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

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