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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 attackers of the ship want?

2. What type of bird is circling the Tower of Art?

3. What carries Discworld?

4. What is it believed that the sourcerer will bring as stated in one of the wizard books?

5. What does Conina tell Rincewind about the hat after the attackers are gone?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the Luggage made of and how does it feel about its master?

4. Explain how the sourcerer came to be.

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

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

7. What happens to the Magnificent Hat which was intended for the new Archchancellor?

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

9. What does Rincewind tell Conina about what he would like to see his future hold?

10. What happens to Carding when he touches the staff for the first time?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are Luggage, the hat, the magic carpet, and the magic lamps symbols? What do they represent? What is their role in the story?

Essay Topic 2

Explain how Nijel grows throughout the quest from a newly created barbarian to a fierce fighter of the Ice Giants.

Essay Topic 3

How is the Librarian the stability and soundness of thought throughout the entire novel? What is his goal? Why does he remain an ape and not a man?

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