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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What begins showering from the top of the pyramid?
(a) Fabric.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Food.
(d) Leaflets.

2. Who retrieves a black disc from the ceiling?
(a) Reg Shoe.
(b) Arthur.
(c) Windle Poons.
(d) Albert.

3. What does Bill Door believe the new incarnation of Death lacks?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Niceness.
(c) Sarcasm.
(d) Professionalism.

4. What does the Archchancellor use to defeat a moving compost?
(a) Soy sauce.
(b) Ponzu sauce.
(c) Wow Wow sauce.
(d) Tabasco.

5. What does Bill Door mistake as the new incarnation of Death, in the cornfield?
(a) Miss Flitworth.
(b) The combination harvester covered in a tarp.
(c) A broom.
(d) A scarecrow.

6. Who begins racing the combination harvester the first time it is used?
(a) Reg Shoe.
(b) Windle Poons.
(c) Bill Door.
(d) Senior Wrangler.

7. Where does Death visit to find a gemstone to give to Miss Flitworth?
(a) Hades.
(b) Greenland.
(c) Iceland.
(d) Howandaland.

8. Who falls into a basket when trolleys begin escaping through the city?
(a) The Archchancellor.
(b) The Bursar.
(c) The Dean.
(d) The Patrician.

9. What is the name of the town blacksmith?
(a) Ned Simnel.
(b) Reg Shoe.
(c) Modo.
(d) One-Man-Bucket.

10. What does the new incarnation of Death wear that angers Bill Door?
(a) Rings.
(b) Bracelets.
(c) A necklace.
(d) A crown.

11. Who does Windle Poons ask Mrs. Cake to look after for him when he is ready to die?
(a) Modo.
(b) The Dean.
(c) Albert.
(d) Lupine.

12. Who predicts Windle Poons' death in a letter given to him near the end of the book?
(a) Ixolite.
(b) Ludmilla.
(c) Azrael.
(d) Miss Flitworth.

13. Who remembers when this all will be again at the end of the book?
(a) Bill Door.
(b) Death.
(c) Windle Poons.
(d) Azreal.

14. Who does Death send away at the end of the book?
(a) Arthur.
(b) Miss Flitworth.
(c) Albert.
(d) Reg Shoe.

15. What does everyone at the dance call Death near the end of the book?
(a) Frank.
(b) Good Old Bill.
(c) Death.
(d) Ole Sam.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color marble does Ludmilla find under the pyramid?

2. How long is Mrs. Cake's precognition that she turns off in the book?

3. What interrupts the wizards' discussions of how to fight the ghosts at the Unseen University?

4. Who stays behind in the room and struggles against pink tubing so others can escape?

5. What is the name of the invention the town blacksmith creates and shows to Bill Door and Miss Flitworth?

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