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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 the bumper sticker on Lady Sybil's coach?

2. What is the first thing that Errol takes a bite out of in the Watch house?

3. What item of ceremonial regalia does Vimes always refuse to wear?

4. What is Brother Fingers' real name?

5. How high up is the window that Vimes tries to chip the bars out of?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lady Sybil dress up when she hears a knock at the door?

2. Why does the Librarian free Vimes?

3. Why does Nobby decide to call Goodbooy Bindle Featherstone Errol?

4. Why did Brother Fingers run away?

5. Why do the rats wait on the Patrician?

6. Who is the Supreme Grand Master and how do you know?

7. How do Sam Vimes and Lupine Wonse feel about each other?

8. What is Lady Sybil's attitude to the possibility of the monarchy being reinstated?

9. What facts make Lady Sybil become suspicious?

10. How has the attitude of the Elucidated Brethren changed towards summoning dragons by this point?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain, using your own words, why the Supreme Grand Master and the Elucidated Brethren decide to summon a dragon. Your essay should deal with the Supreme Grand Master and the rest of the Brethren separately.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Describe one of the more comic situations in this novel. Your description should include:

(a) an explanation of the situation itself,

(b) the reasons why you find this to be funny

(c) some of the techniques used by Terry Pratchett that make it funny (e.g. word play, bathos, incongruity, parody)

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