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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. Who is worried by the violence of the traveling group organized by Mr. Teatime?

2. Who finds a guard who was missing before?

3. What happens when the Archchancellor hits a button called "Old Faithful?"

4. To whom was Susan not biologically related but still connected to?

5. Who accompanies Susan outside her house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Whom does Susan meet when she goes to the bar called Biers? What happens?

2. What happens when Death takes Corporal Nobbs on his lap?

3. What does Ernie have that Teatime uses to travel?

4. What does Death do at the house of the boy who does not believe in the Hogfather?

5. Where does Susan first enter in Death's house?

6. Who is Twyla? What is her role in the story?

7. Who appears in Biers? What does he say to Susan?

8. What does Mr. Teatime do in order to transport his mercenaries?

9. Where does Teatime take Sideney?

10. What does Susan ask Death? What does he say?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the Tooth Fairy portrayed in Hogfather? How does this depiction vary from traditional stories? Describe.

Essay Topic 2

Terry Pratchett makes a clear reference to the myth surrounding the story of "Good King Wenceslas" when Death sends a shower of food to the beggars on the streets of Ankh-Morpork. What is this reference? How are the two stories similar and how are they different? Describe.

Essay Topic 3

The author uses more than one instance of irony in the stories. Cite at least two examples you can identify in the book and note why they are examples of irony.

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