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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 do the predators attacking the city begin to absorb from it?

2. What is the small piece of Death that escapes and survives?

3. Which of the following things is not in the chest of Miss Flitworth's that does not contain gold?

4. Who wonders how something in the pyramid is alive if it is so rectangular?

5. Who paints Fresh Start Club graffiti in the book?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How are city eggs first described?

4. What favor does Windle Poons ask of Mrs. Cake before wandering off in the book?

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

6. How does Bill Door race the combination harvester?

7. How is the combination harvester first described?

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

9. How does Bill Door feel about the person who replaced him as the persona of Death?

10. What is in Miss Flitworth's three chests she keeps on her dresser?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the nature of the persona of Bill Door that is portrayed in the book. Part 1.) What does Death becoming Bill Door allow him to learn about the nature of the world that he wasn't able to grasp as the persona of Death? Part 2.) How did this persona allow him to grow as a person?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the author's portrayal of man versus machine in the book. What does man possess that allows him to overcome machines despite often being overcome by them?

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