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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following things is not in the chest of Miss Flitworth's that does not contain gold?
(a) A wedding veil.
(b) Photographs.
(c) White shoes.
(d) A music box.

3. Where does Death take Miss Flitworth near the end of the book?
(a) The Morris dance.
(b) The gold dance.
(c) The silver dance.
(d) The harvest dance.

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

5. Who wonders how something in the pyramid is alive if it is so rectangular?
(a) Schleppel.
(b) Lupine.
(c) Windle Poons.
(d) Ludmilla.

6. What does Bill Door become when his lifetimer is empty?
(a) A ghost.
(b) A zombie.
(c) A vampire.
(d) A demon.

7. What does the man summoned during the séance claim the snowglobes to actually be?
(a) Gerbils.
(b) Pods.
(c) City eggs.
(d) Aliens.

8. Who appears on the opposite side of the mall queen and reveals his true form as a giant, shaggy monster?
(a) Schleppel.
(b) Reg Shoe.
(c) The Bursar.
(d) Modo.

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

10. What is the name of the world's largest diamond in the book?
(a) Prelioxis.
(b) Zincolia.
(c) The sphinx.
(d) Tear of Offer.

11. What do the wizards of the Unseen University behave like when Windle and the others find them in the pyramid?
(a) Happy.
(b) Excited.
(c) In a trance.
(d) Sad.

12. What does Death change his realm's landscape to at the end of the book?
(a) Mountains.
(b) A river.
(c) The ocean.
(d) Corn fields.

13. What kind of weather do Bill Door and Miss Flitworth endure while trying to collect their harvest?
(a) Sunny.
(b) Snowing.
(c) A hailstorm.
(d) A thunderstorm.

14. Who stays behind in the room and struggles against pink tubing so others can escape?
(a) Schleppel.
(b) Bill Door.
(c) Windle Poons.
(d) Miss Flitworth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the wizards shout when coming to save Windle Poons?

2. Who acts carelessly during a fight at the university and sends off a fireball?

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

4. Who is sitting on a beam and talks to Bill Door after his lifetimer empties?

5. Where does Death visit to find a gemstone to give to Miss Flitworth?

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