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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 when Keli refuses to leave with Mort on his horse?

2. What answer does Terpsic receive when he asks why he was saved?

3. What does Albert say about his interior beneath the crusty exterior?

4. What does Ysabell say her father always said about the Rite of AshkEnte?

5. Why does Mort say he knows he is going mad when they get to Sto Lat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Albert decide after having returned to the Unseen University?

2. What do Mort and Ysabell find when they start reading Albert's books?

3. Explain what happens to Terpsic Mims while he is fishing.

4. What is Cutwell able to tell Mort about the dome that is shrinking down around the palace?

5. What happens at the Unseen University when they perform the Rite of AshkEnte?

6. Describe what happens when Death is at the employment agency.

7. What happens when Albert materializes at the Unseen University?

8. Describe Death's new job at Harga's House of Ribs.

9. What does Albert do after Ysabell and Mort leave?

10. What do the wizards decide to do after Albert is gone?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part 1) Why does no one call Mort by his name?

Part 2) Why does Mort continue to fight against the fact that no one can remember his name?

Part 3) Why is it important that Mort continues to correct everyone that calls him something other than Mort?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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