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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the combatants does not use a dragon in the mortal combat that Hrun has challenged?
(a) Hrun.
(b) Liartes.
(c) Lio!rt.
(d) Rincewind.

2. What happens to the slave ship after Twoflower and Rincewind escape from it?
(a) It limps back to Krull for repairs.
(b) If falls into the sea at the Gorunna Trench.
(c) It is caught in the Circumfence.
(d) It is retrofitted and returns to service.

3. What is the name of the sea troll?
(a) Bathys.
(b) Tethis.
(c) Krullian.
(d) Ghlen.

4. As Greicha the First's children prepare to battle for the throne, who has determined the rules for succession?
(a) The Loremaster.
(b) The Dragonmaster.
(c) Liessa.
(d) Greicha.

5. Who are the three characters that take refuge inside the ship when the arrows start flying just before the ship is scheduled to be launched?
(a) Twoflower, Hrun, and Luggage.
(b) Twoflower, Luggage, and Rincewind.
(c) Twoflower, Rincewind, and Hrun.
(d) Twoflower, Rincewind, and Tethis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can Rincewind not summon a dragon?

2. What is the name of the hooded figure in Chapter 4?

3. What is Ajandurah's Wand of Utter Negativity?

4. What does Rincewind realize about the field the three travelers stop to rest in?

5. Why does the young man challenging Rincewind to combat assume that Rincewind has come looking to fight him as well?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Rincewind tell the dragon rider that he will never surrender?

2. How does the troll at the Edge of Discworld furnish his home and obtain most of his belongings?

3. What happens when Hrun tosses a coin into the air as the travelers are resting in the field?

4. When Rincewind rescues Hrun's sword from the tree the sword is stuck in, what does the sword tell Rincewind?

5. As Rincewind flies into the cavern full of dragons amidst the armed guards, what does Kring tell Rincewind?

6. Having been challenged to a fight, both of the brother combatants can choose their own weapons. What do they choose and why?

7. As the vessel lifts off to return Rincewind and Twoflower to Krull, why is Twoflower unworried?

8. As Death sits in his garden sharpening his scythe, why does Death no longer feel the need to chase Rincewind and Twoflower?

9. Why does the client maim Goldeneyes after Goldeneyes completes each job?

10. At the end of the novel, while Rincewind wants to get off the ship, Twoflower wants to stay aboard. Why?

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