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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 Sam Vimes wearing when he goes to confront the mob?

2. What charity does Lady Sybil support?

3. Where does Lady Ramkin live?

4. What did Carrot's adoptive parents think he would grow out of?

5. How long, according to the general knowledge cited by Vimes, have dragons been extinct?

Short Essay Questions

1. What annoys Vimes most about the dragon?

2. Why is the wall in the alleyway demolished?

3. What is known about Carrot's sword?

4. How does the Thieves' Guild reduce or control crime?

5. What does Carrot not realize about the Mrs Palm's "boarding house"?

6. Why is Sam Vimes attracted to Goodboy Bindle Featherstone of Quirm?

7. Why does Vimes completely reject the suggestion that the footprints were made by a wading bird?

8. Why do the Elucidated Brethren want to summon a dragon?

9. What is noticeable about the magical artifacts brought by the Elucidated Brethren for the second summoning of the dragon?

10. Why has Vetinari allowed Vimes to remain in charge of the Night Watch?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The large dragon is often described as "almost human" in a number of places and it is stated that noble dragons embody the inner darkness of the one who summoned them into the world. What bad aspects of human nature are embodied (and exaggerated) by the dragon? Your answer should cover at least three vices. For each, state the following:

(a) The vice

(b) How the dragon exaggerates this vice

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the following quotes by the Irish politician Edmund Burke (or attributed to him) and discuss how it is relevant to GUARDS! GUARDS!

(a) "The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."

(b) "Custom reconciles us to every thing."

(c) "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."

Essay Topic 3

Vimes feels a bond of sympathy for the little dragon Errol and takes it to be the Watch mascot. Explain how Errol is symbolic or representative:

(a) What does Errol have in common with the Watch in general?

(b) How does Errol parallel or symbolize Vimes?

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