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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 Death say that curry is like?

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

3. What does Ysabell explain that everything in Death's home is?

4. What does the 103-year-old woman comment on when Mort arrives to take her?

5. What problem does Princess Keli have after Mort saves her life?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what is going through Mort's mind when he first wakes up in Death's home.

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

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

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

5. Explain who the Listeners are.

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

7. What does Death's house look like?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Part 1) Speculate on the reasons that Mort is only able to walk through walls when he isn't paying attention to them.

Part 2) What does Mort mean when he says that Death is whoever does Death's job?

Essay Topic 3

Look at Death.

Part 1) Speculate on the reasons that Death chose Mort to be his apprentice?

Part 2) Is it possible that Death chose Mort simply to be Ysabell's husband and for no other reason or did Death intend to retire from the beginning?

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