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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the word that Lady Sybil uses to describe Goodboy Bindle Featherstone of Quirm?
(a) A whittle.
(b) A slump.
(c) A shoulder-sitter.
(d) A cobb.

2. When do swamp dragons have fire inside them?
(a) When they have blowback.
(b) Never.
(c) All the time.
(d) After eating igneous rocks.

3. What is Sam Vimes wearing when he goes to confront the mob?
(a) Full armour.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A nightshirt and pink fluffy slippers.
(d) Lady Sybil's dressing gown.

4. What is unusual about the Librarian of Unseen University?
(a) He has four arms.
(b) He is a troll.
(c) He is a dwarf.
(d) He is an orangutan.

5. Apart from reading the book of law, what does Carrot like to do in his spare time?
(a) Write to his parents and polish his armour.
(b) Play football and sing in a choir.
(c) Write poetry and clean the Watch house.
(d) Drink in taverns and study butterflies.

6. What impresses Vimes most about Goodboy Bindle Featherstone of Quirm?
(a) His pale green scales.
(b) His tiny wings.
(c) His expressive eyes.
(d) His enormous nostrils.

7. What do the Elucidated Brethren use to try to summon the dragon?
(a) Magical artifacts.
(b) The blood of a human.
(c) Old books.
(d) Gold.

8. What rank does Sam Vimes hold?
(a) Captain.
(b) Sergeant.
(c) Colonel.
(d) Commander.

9. What charity does Lady Sybil support?
(a) Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Dragons.
(b) Sunshine Home for Lost Dragons.
(c) Society for Sheltering Sick Dragons.
(d) Sunshine Sanctuary for Sick Dragons.

10. Which pub does Carrot unintentionally start a fight in?
(a) The Mended Drum.
(b) The Dwarf Bar.
(c) The Broken Drum.
(d) The Bunch of Grapes.

11. How long, according to the general knowledge cited by Vimes, have dragons been extinct?
(a) Millions of years.
(b) Thousands of years.
(c) Hundreds of years.
(d) They never existed at all.

12. How many stomachs do swamp dragons have?
(a) Eight.
(b) Nine.
(c) Four.
(d) Seven.

13. What happens to the wall with the shadowy outlines of the flamed criminals?
(a) It is turned into a target range by the Watch.
(b) It is painted over.
(c) It is turned into a mural.
(d) It is destroyed.

14. What wakes Sam Vimes up for the second time when he is staying at Lady Sybil's house?
(a) A mob.
(b) Nobby.
(c) The dragon.
(d) Lady Sybil.

15. What did Carrot's adoptive parents think he would grow out of?
(a) Growing.
(b) Singing.
(c) Snoring.
(d) Reading.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the Elucidated Brethren does not feel nervous and guilty about what they are doing?

2. Who recommends that Carrot join the Watch?

3. What part of the town does the dragon appear in?

4. How does Vetinari describe the outlines on the alley wall?

5. What does the Patrician keep as a pet?

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