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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of breakfast does Miss Flitworth feed to Bill Door?
(a) Eggs.
(b) Toast.
(c) Pancakes.
(d) Porridge.

2. How old is the wizard that is dying at the beginning of the book?
(a) 80.
(b) 75.
(c) 90.
(d) 130.

3. Who is customarily present at the death of a wizard, but was not when the wizard was dying?
(a) The Patrician.
(b) The Dean.
(c) Death.
(d) The Bursar.

4. What do the townsfolk refer to Bill Door as?
(a) "Frightening Bill".
(b) "Death".
(c) "Good Old Bill".
(d) "Dead as a Doornail".

5. What is the name of the wife of the male vampire at the Fresh Start Club?
(a) Renata.
(b) Evadne.
(c) Doreen.
(d) Ludmilla.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the medium's daughter that is a werewolf?

2. What is the name of Death's horse?

3. What is the name of the bridge where Windle Poons goes after becoming undead?

4. What inanimate objects first begin moving on their own in the book?

5. What does Bill Door complain is too noisy in Miss Flitworth's parlor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bill Door do to Miss Flitworth's clock while visiting with her?

2. How is Bill Door first accepted around town after moving there?

3. How does the narrator compare two experiences of life with mayflies and pine trees?

4. How does Bill Door react when Miss Flitworth tells him to save a little girl from a fire?

5. What does Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler tell Sergeant Colon is happening in his cellar?

6. How is Windle Poons' death described in the book?

7. How is Miss Flitwotrh's parlor described in the book?

8. How is Windle Poons' first suicide attempt described?

9. How is the Morris dance first described?

10. How does Bill Door react after Miss Flitworth asks him to help her kill rats and a chicken?

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