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

2. What does Death say that curry is like?
(a) Drinking dry water.
(b) Eating glass noodles.
(c) Biting a red hot ice cube.
(d) Chewing hard gum.

3. What do the men in the Shades tell Mort they are going to do?
(a) Steal his horse.
(b) Help him find out if there is an afterlife.
(c) Alleviate his wordly burdens from him.
(d) Kill him and take his money.

4. What can Mort tell is at the center of the dome he is watching?
(a) The tavern he has just been in.
(b) A temple where Death is worshiped.
(c) Lot Stat.
(d) Ankh-Morpork.

5. Which of the following is NOT said about cabbages?
(a) They are valuable roughage and have commendable food value.
(b) They have never inspired a poet unless he was starving.
(c) They have saved many a drowning cat.
(d) They have a high vitamin content.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Lezek seem to believe that Death's occupation is?

3. What does Death say it will be when the Great A'Tuin dies?

4. What does Mort compare Ysabel's eyebrows to?

5. What is the magic word that the door knocker tells Princess Keli to use?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the scene while Princess Keli is laying in bed listening to sounds not being made.

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

3. Describe what happens in Cutwell's home?

4. What happens when Mort walks in the Shades in Ankh-Morpork?

5. What does Mort do while shoveling manure?

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

7. What happens when Mort goes into the tavern?

8. What changes have taken place in Mort that are described when Mort first walks into the tavern?

9. Explain who the Listeners are.

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

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