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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. Which of the following things is not in the chest of Miss Flitworth's that does not contain gold?
(a) A wedding veil.
(b) White shoes.
(c) Photographs.
(d) A music box.

2. What kind of music begins playing from inside the pyramid?
(a) Tuneless.
(b) Loud.
(c) Sad.
(d) Angry.

3. Who appears to Death after he sends a friend away at the end of the book?
(a) Death-Of-Rats.
(b) Albert.
(c) Reg Shoe.
(d) Miss Flitworth.

4. How many devastating spells does the Dean announce he will use to destroy the hive?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

5. Who retrieves a black disc from the ceiling?
(a) Arthur.
(b) Reg Shoe.
(c) Albert.
(d) Windle Poons.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who falls into a basket when trolleys begin escaping through the city?

3. What does Bill Door flee into after his lifetimer empties?

4. What does the new incarnation of Death wear that angers Bill Door?

5. What kind of alcohol casks cause the barn that Bill Door was staying in to blow up?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is the inside of the pyramid described when Windle Poons and the others first enter it?

4. How is Death's visit to a flower shop described?

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

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

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

8. How is the combination harvester first described?

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

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

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