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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 animal works as the university librarian?

2. Which of the following demands does Bill Door NOT make regarding a little girl, after he saves her from a fire?

3. Who does Bill Door tell Miss Flitworth to remind him owes him money before going to fight Death?

4. What do the predators attacking the city begin to absorb from it?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why can't Bill Door pick up his scythe when he becomes a ghost?

2. How does Schleppel help people escape the pink tubing in the book?

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

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

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

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

7. What happens after Arthur removes a black disc from the ceiling of the pyramid?

8. What does Bill Door reveal to Miss Flitworth when she tells him her first name?

9. How are city eggs first described?

10. How does Miss Flitworth learn that Bill Door is really Death?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the portrayal of sacrifice in the book. What impact does Miss Flitworth's sacrifice of her lifetimer sand have on Bill Door/Death's humanization in the book, and why is this act so significant to him?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the concept of principles that is presented in the book. How does Death's principles define him even in his human form as Bill Door, and what does this suggest about the nature of his character?

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