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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. Who must be stopped or the original Hogfather will never have existed?

2. What does the staff find instead of food in the fancy restaurant?

3. What is the last name listed on the list of addresses that Susan finds in Violet's house?

4. Who is approaching the room that Susan and Bilious are in when he sees a shadow and screams?

5. Who says that the Hogfather has come to the university on Hogswatch?

Short Essay Questions

1. Whom do Susan and Bilious find in another room of the house?

2. What is the importance of the chase that Susan sees in the snowy forest?

3. What does Susan discover in the house of the girl who collects teeth?

4. What is unusual about the librarian?

5. What does Susan discover about the heap of teeth?

6. What does Susan see in the middle of the floor of the house she enters? What disappears in front of her eyes?

7. What does Teatime do that causes great tension for Medium Dave?

8. What is the strange memory that Bilious has about his manifestation into physical form?

9. How do Chickenwire's fears prevent him from killing Bilious?

10. What concerns Albert about Death's behavior?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the Tooth Fairy portrayed in Hogfather? How does this depiction vary from traditional stories? Describe.

Essay Topic 2

The author uses more than one instance of irony in the stories. Cite at least two examples you can identify in the book and note why they are examples of irony.

Essay Topic 3

Hex is a thinking machine at the Unseen University. What is a thinking machine? What is considered human versus robotic or machine-like? Is Hex capable of feelings? Is Hex self-aware? Is Hex alive? Does Hex offer perfect computations expected of a highly functioning machine? Describe your opinion of Hex.

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