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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 Bill Door flee into after his lifetimer empties?

2. Who wonders if the ants inside the pyramid have a queen?

3. Which of the following things does Bill Door NOT use to sharpen his weapon on?

4. Who appears on an old mountain range just after Miss Flitworth learns she has died?

5. Who turns into a bat?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Mrs. Cake tell Windle Poons about the imbalance of life force between the present world and the astral?

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

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

8. What does Bill Door tell Miss Flitworth about the nature of borrowed time?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Examine the symbolism that dance has in the book. What significance do the two dances, the Morris dance and the harvest dance, have in the portrayal of the circle of life in the book?

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