Equal Rites | Short Essay Answer Key

Short Essay Answer Key

1. Describe how Discworld is different from other planets.

Discworld is a geological pizza, flying through space on four giant elephants atop a massive star turtle. Magic and sex survive on the planet.

2. What does the wizard Billet come into the town of Bad Ass for and what does he find?

Drum Billet comes to Bad Ass looking for the blacksmith's eighth son. The eighth son of an eighth son can be a wizard and Billet can pass on his legacy. Billet finds out that the eighth child of the blacksmith is actually a girl.

3. What happens when Billet holds the staff over the baby? What does Granny propose to do with the staff and what happens to it?

When Billet holds the staff over the baby, he gasps when he sees that it is a girl and he dies. Granny proposes to burn...
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