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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 happens to the owl that Mort watches fly through the iridescent wall?
(a) It comes through moving very slowly on the other side.
(b) Nothing.
(c) It disappears.
(d) It dies.

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 Keli ask the maid the location of?
(a) The royal bathhouse.
(b) The wizard, Cutwell.
(c) The town priest.
(d) The way to Death's home.

4. What does Goodie say she was guaranteed as part of the arrangement?
(a) A happy life.
(b) A first class farewell.
(c) Personal attention.
(d) An extended life.

5. Where does Mort go on his day off?
(a) Home to see his family.
(b) To the pyramids.
(c) To the ocean.
(d) Ankh-Morpork.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mort hear that makes him feel rather homesick?

2. What colors is Death's house decorated in?

3. What does Death tell Mort is the reason that his father is acting so strangely when he is questioning Death?

4. Which of these does Mort NOT say about Ysabell while they are walking to the pond?

5. Who is the second person that Mort is sent to see to on his own?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe what happens in Cutwell's home?

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

6. Describe Keli's meeting with the wizard.

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

8. Who is the second person that Mort retrieves?

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

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

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