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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 Death say makes living worthwhile?

2. What becomes of the Patrician?

3. What are the wizards drinking at the feast?

4. What does Coin do to the pictures of the Archchancellors hanging in the Great Hall?

5. What does enlarging the windows reveal about the Great Hall?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Magnificent Hat tell Rincewind and Conina that they must do?

2. What does Conina tell Rincewind about her father and herself?

3. How does the Magnificent Hat convince Conina and Rincewind to get on the boat and go far from the Unseen University?

4. What does the Magnificent Hat claim about its own virtues?

5. Specifically, how does Coin transform the Great Hall?

6. How is Rincewind first described? Why does he leave the Unseen University?

7. How do Carding and Spelter feel about Coin after seeing his first feats?

8. How do the townspeople react when the wizards enter the streets and announce they are now ruling the city?

9. Who is Conina's father and what is Conina best at doing? What does she want to be?

10. What challenge does Coin propose to the wizards in regard to their power and Discworld?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

"It is a well-known established fact throughout the many-dimensional worlds of the multiverse that most really great discoveries are owed to one brief moment of inspiration." Explain Terry Pratchett's philosophy in regard to this quote and how the great discovery did or did not work in Discworld.

Essay Topic 2

The character of Creosote is round yet static. Explain how Creosote is described using both direct and indirect characterization.

Essay Topic 3

What role does Spelter play throughout the novel? How is he a good wizard? What mistake did he make? How does he attempt to rectify his mistake? What does it cost him?

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