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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 is Keli's experience that gives her a problem with the door knocker?
(a) She isn't used to doors talking.
(b) Different magical lands lay on the other side of talking doors.
(c) She had been bitten once by a door.
(d) Doors ususally open themselves.

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

3. What does Mort finally say he knows he wants?
(a) A place to wash up.
(b) A fast horse.
(c) Something to eat.
(d) A brothel.

4. What would the monks yell when someone got close to their holy temple?
(a) Call out various names.
(b) Remove your shoes... they make too much noise.
(c) Keep the bloody noise down.
(d) We don't want whatever you are selling.

5. What does Mort decide he will do once he is feeling homesick?
(a) Go play with the children.
(b) Go have a drink.
(c) Resign his position with Death.
(d) Go home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the items called that pour the moments of every living person's life from the future into the past?

2. What is the reason that the Gods haven't sent an avalanche to destroy the Listeners?

3. What does Lezek say when Mort says he will be sure to write?

4. What can Mort tell is at the center of the dome he is watching?

5. What had Mort done when he saved Keli's life?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Mort goes into the tavern?

2. What does Death's house look like?

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

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

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

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

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

8. Describe what Albert says about his life before he came to live with Death.

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

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

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