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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 does Miss Flitworth do when Bill Door hesitates to help a little girl in a fire?
(a) Cries.
(b) Yells at him.
(c) Slaps him.
(d) Laughs at him.

2. What is the name of a small piece of Bill Door's former self, incarnated for the reaping of rat souls?
(a) Reg Shoe.
(b) Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler.
(c) Death-of-Rats.
(d) One-Man-Bucket.

3. What does an auditor refer to himself as that causes him to blow up in flame?
(a) Sir.
(b) I.
(c) God.
(d) Lord.

4. Who owns the piece of furniture in which the mysterious object first begins appearing in the book?
(a) The Bursar.
(b) Death.
(c) Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler.
(d) Archchancellor Ridcully.

5. What is the name of the gardener at the Unseen University?
(a) Arthur.
(b) Modo.
(c) Albert.
(d) Bill Door.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do mysterious objects first start appearing in the book?

2. What does the narrator consider the life of that only lives one day and never eats?

3. Who walks Windle Poons home after his first meeting of the Fresh Start Club?

4. What is the name of the archchancellor in the book?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the gardener, Modo, react when Windle Poons comes out of his grave?

2. How do Windle's friends react after he comes back from the dead?

3. What does the gray robes that the wizards conjure tell them about Death?

4. How do the wizards try to attack Windle Poons after he comes back from the dead?

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

6. How is the Morris dance first described?

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

8. How does Death find a job after taking of the persona of Bill Door?

9. How does Bill Door use the scythe to cut Miss Fitworth's grass?

10. How is Windle Poons described after the wizards bury him in a coffin while undead?

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