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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 Albert offer Mort when he begins explaining about the nodes?

2. What does Cutwell say about the author of the magic book that he and Mort are looking at?

3. What does Cutwell NOT say when Keli asks why he decided to become a wizard?

4. What does Death tell the angry woman that enters the employment agency in order to get her to leave?

5. What does Cutwell say that the road to enlightenment is like?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Explain how Mort gets the information he needs from Albert.

4. What happens when Mort first enters the city of Sto Lat and goes to find Cutwell?

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

6. Describe what happens when Mort reaches the palace in Sto Lat.

7. What does Mort realize when Cutwell is showing him the book on magic?

8. Describe what happens when Mort and Ysabell go to find the book of Albert's life.

9. What happens when Ysabell wakes up Mort?

10. Describe the scene in which Death arrives home to find Mort, Ysabell, Cutwell, and Princess Keli in his home.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Part 1) What role does magic play in the story?

Part 2) Death says that what he does isn't magic? Describe what it is that Death does and why he can walk through walls.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Mort's character.

1) What is implied about Mort in the beginning of the book from the conversation that his father and his uncle have about him?

2) How did Mort change from the beginning of the book compared to the end of the book?

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