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

2. What decorates most of the doors in Death's house?
(a) Skull and bones.
(b) Incantations.
(c) Pictures of kittens playing.
(d) Scenes of the apocalypse.

3. What does Mort's second charge say when Mort enters the room?
(a) I have had a wonderful life.
(b) You're late.
(c) Why are you here?
(d) I thought you must have got the days mixed up.

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

5. What sensation does Mort feel when he first walks through the iridescent wall?
(a) It makes his soul wince.
(b) It makes his head hurt.
(c) It tingles.
(d) It creates a burning sensation against the skin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Mort contact in order to try and find a way into the castle?

2. What does Death go to do when he tells Mort that some things make him really angry?

3. What does Keli appoint Cutwell to do?

4. What surprises Mort when he looks at Death for the first time?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Death explain about the way he is perceived by people?

2. What does Ysabell explain about her relationship with Death and her life there with him?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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