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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 everyone in town amazed at when they see the combination harvester work for the first time?

2. How does Bill Door tell Miss Flitworth he saw her name engraved?

3. Who appears to Death after he sends a friend away at the end of the book?

4. What does Bill Door explain that the little girl he saved from a fire is living on?

5. What is Bill Door and Miss Flitworth's discussion of ethics interrupted by?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Mrs. Cake's séance with One-Man-Bucket described?

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

3. What instructions does Bill Door make after rescuing the little girl from a fire?

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

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

6. How is the combination harvester first described?

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

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

9. How does Windle Poons break into the library of the Unseen University?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

The concept of death is the leading theme in the book's overall message to readers. Part 1.) What can we learn about the nature of how others perceive death based on the narrator's suggestion that is created by our feelings toward it? Part 2.) How does Death's escape into the world as Bill Door suggest flaws in our perceptions of the nature of death? Part 3.) How can it be argued that death is the central theme found in the book?

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