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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 does the narrator consider the life of that only lives one day and never eats?

2. What is the name that Death takes on when he acts as a human?

3. What is the name of the spirit friend the medium contacts to find out why the poltergeist activity is occurring?

4. What is the name of a small piece of Bill Door's former self, incarnated for the reaping of rat souls?

5. What is the name of the supreme god that oversees the meeting held at the beginning of the book?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is Bill Door first accepted around town after moving there?

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

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

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

6. How are the wizards almost injured by a chandelier in the book?

7. How is the Morris dance first described?

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

9. What does Windle Poons' spirit do after Death doesn't show up to collect him?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the portrayal of the concept of hope in the book. How does Windle Poons' experience with undeath increase his perceptions of hope in regards to his feelings about his life?

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

After experiencing the life of the undead, Windle Poons realizes what it means to truly live. Part 1.) What might the author be saying about many people's tendency to take life for granted based on Windle's experience in the book? Part 2.) What impact does living life as Bill Door have on Death's desire to have a life outside of his persona? Part 3.) What appears to be the author's overall message regarding the important things in life?

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