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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 141-170.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the indistinct gray figures say the incarnation of Death has developed at the beginning of the book?
(a) A personality.
(b) A conscience.
(c) A disease.
(d) A phobia.

2. What does Death find a backlog on his desk when sent back to his study in a dream?
(a) Lifetimers.
(b) Files.
(c) Knives.
(d) Obituaries.

3. What do the wizards find an assortment of when they first arrive at the Patrician's palace?
(a) Foods.
(b) Dancers.
(c) Priests.
(d) Musicians.

4. What does the narrator say the persona of Death was created from?
(a) Religion.
(b) People's understanding of death.
(c) God.
(d) History.

5. What is the name of the device Death has that measures the remaining days of his life?
(a) Snowglobe.
(b) Scythe.
(c) Lifetimer.
(d) Tear of Offler.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the support group for dead people that is advertised inside Windle Poons' coffin?

2. Which of the following things does Windle NOT find mysteriously appearing at his house when he goes to retrieve some money?

3. Who gives Mrs. Cake the brush-off when she shows up at the university looking for help?

4. What is the name of the river Windle Poons jumps into after becoming undead?

5. What kind of tree does the narrator discuss as living thousands of years in the book?

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