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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 is Rincewind happy about?

2. What does Stibbons discover is the God's idea of perfection?

3. What does Rincewind hide in?

4. Who does Crocodile Dongo challenge to a sheep shearing contest?

5. What are the line of riders that Rincewind comes across looking for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the Bursar go, and what does he see?

2. Why do the wizards question Stibbons' intentions on Mono Island and what do they hope he might accomplish?

3. What few simple pleasures does Rincewind enjoy at the dry waterhole?

4. When the boat that the wizards are in comes apart, what do they do, and who is the only one to swim for shore?

5. What is at first lost and then returns to the wizards from the boat and how is this helpful to the wizards?

6. As Stibbons wakes up, what vague visions does he have, what does he believe is the fate of the ohter wizards and who is the only wizard who appears to have enjoyed the sensation?

7. What does Stibbons consequently learn that makes him change his mind about staying with the God on Mono Island to create new life forms?

8. What does the God of Evolution suggest that Stibbons start with in his efforts to help and to learn and what does the God believe?

9. What conclusion does Rincewind come to after the earthquake forces him and Neilette to use Luggage and Trunkie as refuge?

10. What do the wizards experience and what is the result?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is most likely able to direct the wizards to Rincewind? What do they find when they go to his quarters? What chain of events is set in motion and what room does it all begin in? How do the wizards become stranded and where?

Essay Topic 2

Which characters are vital to the restoration of Fourecks? What roles do each of them play and where? How does the author manage to draw parallels between Fourecks and Earth? What are the similarities?

Essay Topic 3

What invention is responsible for the displacement of Rincewind? Why did this happen? Who created this invention? What is the reason that the wizards are so anxious to locate Rincewind? What information do the wizards require and why?

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