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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the male vampire at the Fresh Start Club?

2. What is the name of the bashful banshee who passes notes?

3. What does Miss Flitworth do when Bill Door hesitates to help a little girl in a fire?

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

5. Whose palace sends a squad of guards to come investigate the sudden poltergeist activity at the university?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator explain is the repercussion of the absence of death?

2. How is Miss Flitwotrh's parlor described in the book?

3. How is Windle Poons' first Fresh Start Club meeting described?

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

5. What happens when Bill Door sees a gray figure with his shattered lifetimer in the barn during a dream?

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

7. What does Bill Door do to Miss Flitworth's clock while visiting with her?

8. How does the narrator describe how the persona of Death was created?

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

10. What happens when one of the Auditors of Reality refers to himself as I at the beginning of the book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the nature of the persona of Bill Door that is portrayed in the book. Part 1.) What does Death becoming Bill Door allow him to learn about the nature of the world that he wasn't able to grasp as the persona of Death? Part 2.) How did this persona allow him to grow as a person?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the author's portrayal of class in the book. How does the author portray the undead characters in the book as a lesser class than humans, wizards and other characters and what deeper meaning might he wish for you to gain from this presentation?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the author's portrayal of man versus machine in the book. What does man possess that allows him to overcome machines despite often being overcome by them?

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