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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cutwell explain after looking at Keli's palm?

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

3. How much talent for horticulture is Mort as described as having?

4. Where does Mort go on his day off?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is the second person that Mort retrieves?

4. What does Mort do while shoveling manure?

5. What happens when Mort goes into the tavern?

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

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

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

9. Describe what happens in Cutwell's home?

10. Describe Keli's meeting with the wizard.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a short story based on the thought that the Pearl that Death gave to Mort becomes a reality in its own.

Part 1) What characters take part in this story and why?

Part 2) What is this new reality like?

Essay Topic 2

Part 1) What does Ysabell add to Mort?

Part 2) Do they seem like they will be well suited in marriage? Explain why or why not?

Part 3) How is marriage viewed or described in the story?

Essay Topic 3

Part 1) What does Ysabell mean when she says that Death cannot create, he can only make copies?

Part 2) In what ways does Death contradict the image that Ysabell and Albert create in their descriptions of him?

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