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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 realize has changed about her looks after Death reveals she has died?
(a) She is blind.
(b) She is sick.
(c) She is younger.
(d) She is wrinkled.

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

3. Who is injured in the library when trolleys escape?
(a) Windle Poons.
(b) Reg Shoe.
(c) Lupine.
(d) Modo.

4. What does Bill Door say to Miss Flitworth just as Death appears on a horse?
(a) "Its not right".
(b) "I don't want to go".
(c) "I can't go on".
(d) "Do i have to".

5. What do the predators attacking the city begin to absorb from it?
(a) Its happiness.
(b) Its color.
(c) Its essence.
(d) Its sanity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who remembers when this all will be again at the end of the book?

2. Who does Bill Door say is the only person with a hot enough furnace for him to use to fulfill his goals?

3. Who does Bill Door hire to destroy his scythe?

4. What color are the baskets the group finds inside the pyramid?

5. What does Bill Door tell Miss Flitworth that borrowed time is when he tells her he is also living on it?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bill Door reveal to Miss Flitworth when she tells him her first name?

2. How does Bill Door race the combination harvester?

3. How do Miss Flitworth and Bill Door try to save their harvest during a hailstorm?

4. How is Mrs. Cake's séance with One-Man-Bucket described?

5. Why can't Bill Door pick up his scythe when he becomes a ghost?

6. What is in Miss Flitworth's three chests she keeps on her dresser?

7. How is Death's meeting with the Auditors atop a mountain described?

8. What is the nature of the leaflets Windle Poons finds coming from the top of the pyramid?

9. What favor does Windle Poons ask of Mrs. Cake before wandering off in the book?

10. How does Archchancellor Ridcully defeat a living compost heap in the book?

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