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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. Who acts carelessly during a fight at the university and sends off a fireball?
(a) The Bursar.
(b) The Archchancellor.
(c) The Dean.
(d) The Patrician.

2. Who does Death travel to the center of the universe to consult near the end of the book?
(a) The Archchancellor.
(b) The Dean.
(c) The Auditors.
(d) Azreal.

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

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

5. What is the name of the invention the town blacksmith creates and shows to Bill Door and Miss Flitworth?
(a) The combination harvester.
(b) The reaper.
(c) The cotton gin.
(d) The bulldozer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose curse words first turn into small flying creatures?

3. What does the Archchancellor claim he believes the compost heap to be made of?

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

5. Who appears on the opposite side of the mall queen and reveals his true form as a giant, shaggy monster?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the wizards react when the trolleys begin increasing in number?

2. How does Bill Door feel about the person who replaced him as the persona of Death?

3. How is the combination harvester first described?

4. What instructions does Bill Door make after rescuing the little girl from a fire?

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

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

7. How does Death retrieve the Fear of Offer diamond?

8. What does Windle Poons say he has learned about himself after dying at the end of the book?

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

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

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