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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 room does Windle Poons break into at the Unseen University?
(a) The library.
(b) The dean's office.
(c) His office.
(d) The cafeteria.

2. What color marble does Ludmilla find under the pyramid?
(a) Orange.
(b) Purple.
(c) Blue.
(d) Green.

3. What color are the baskets the group finds inside the pyramid?
(a) Bronze.
(b) Golden.
(c) Silver.
(d) Green.

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

5. Who appears and gives Windle Poons a note of a death prediction?
(a) The Bursar.
(b) Sergeant Colon.
(c) The Patrician.
(d) Senior Wrangler.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Archchancellor use to defeat a moving compost?

2. What kind of weather do Bill Door and Miss Flitworth endure while trying to collect their harvest?

3. Who sees the new incarnation of Death, along with Bill Door, for the first time?

4. Who glories in using his magic to destroy trolleys, but is unsuccessful?

5. Where does Death visit that he has trouble keeping anything alive that he buys?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Miss Flitworth do when Death reveals she is dead?

3. What is the nature of Bill Door's request for Ned Simnel to destroy his scythe?

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

5. How are city eggs first described?

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

7. How does Bill Door race the combination harvester?

8. What does Windle Poons decide about what it means for a city to be alive?

9. How is Death and Miss Flitworth's dancing at the harvest dance described?

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

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