Zebbo+mooty+answers

**2. The quota was his death.**

 * == **He derived little comfort** ==

**4. He was killed by a fire-breathing dragon.**

 * == **He became ash.** ==

**8. It was because he had believed more in a fortune teller than Death himself.**
== **9. The black ash was Mooty, he was killed by the fire-breathing dragon, and had turned into ash.** ==

__**Interpretation**__
== **1. He was in the form of a person. The author was trying to make us curious about what will happen next to Mooty.** == == **2. It's because he only knew one thing about the dragon, that it breathes fire, which killed him.** ==