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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 relationship between Archchancellor Ridcully and the Chief Priest in the book?

2. What is the name of the dance described at the beginning of the book?

3. What do the wizards find an assortment of when they first arrive at the Patrician's palace?

4. How does the narrator describe the relationship between the Unseen University and the Patrician?

5. Who secretly follows Windle Poons home after his first meeting of the Fresh Start Club?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the gardener, Modo, react when Windle Poons comes out of his grave?

2. How is Windle Poons' death described in the book?

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

4. How does Bill Door use the scythe to cut Miss Fitworth's grass?

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

6. What happens when Windle Poons goes into the Shades?

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

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

9. How does Bill Door react when Miss Flitworth tells him to save a little girl from a fire?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the concept of mourning that is presented in the book. What impact does Death's first experience with mourning have on his outlook on life and what change does this exhibit in him?

Essay Topic 2

From the beginning of the book, the author presents an element of fantasy in the scenery and characters in the book. Part 1.) How do the book's characters create a tone of fantasy? Part 2.) What elements would have been impossible without the element of fantasy? Part 3.) How does the author take advantage of fantasy when using symbolic morals to the story?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the wizards' attempts at solving the pyramid crisis with Windle and his groups'. How has Windle's point of view and ability to problem solve change after becoming undead in comparison to his former wizard friends, and what factors can be credited for this change?

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