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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 the man ask when Mort asks if he dies often?
(a) This is the first.
(b) A fair bit.
(c) Every year it seems like.
(d) I can't remember.

2. What surprises Mort when he looks at Death for the first time?
(a) That he can stand without any muscle mass.
(b) That he is real.
(c) That he isn't afraid.
(d) That he is completely visible.

3. Why does the witch, Goodie Hamstring, explain that Death doesn't like magical people?
(a) They have control over Death.
(b) They try to avoid Death.
(c) They smell funny.
(d) They give him a hard time.

4. What did Death give Mort before Mort left?
(a) A bottle filled with a magic potion.
(b) A bag of coins.
(c) A book.
(d) A talisman to keep him safe.

5. What does Death say is the reason that the King doesn't feel sad?
(a) Death is where we are all meant to go.
(b) Shock he supposes.
(c) Emotions get left behind in the glands.
(d) There are no tears where the king is headed.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Death say can see him in his true form?

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

5. What does Ysabell explain that everything in Death's home is?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the difficulty that Keli soon finds that she is having?

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

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

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

5. Describe what happens when Mort is waiting to become an apprentice.

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

7. What does Death's house look like?

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

9. Describe the barrier wall that reality is creating because of Mort's interaction.

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

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