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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 do Stibbons and Ridcully ask the character that they can see because they are wizards?

2. Who drops from the sky on to a feasting table at the Unseen University?

3. Who can Stibbons and Ridcully see because they are wizards?

4. What does the staff find instead of food in the fancy restaurant?

5. What does Susan see when she rides through a snowy forest?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Teatime do that causes great tension for Medium Dave?

2. Where does Teatime fall? What does he do?

3. Whom do Susan and Bilious find in another room of the house?

4. What do the Auditors have to do and why?

5. Describe the chase.

6. What does Susan discover in the house of the girl who collects teeth?

7. Why is Chickenwire screaming?

8. What is the strange memory that Bilious has about his manifestation into physical form?

9. What is the importance of the chase that Susan sees in the snowy forest?

10. What does the clipping sound remind Peachy of?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Hex is a thinking machine at the Unseen University. What is a thinking machine? What is considered human versus robotic or machine-like? Is Hex capable of feelings? Is Hex self-aware? Is Hex alive? Does Hex offer perfect computations expected of a highly functioning machine? Describe your opinion of Hex.

Essay Topic 2

Explain Pratchett's use of humor in the book. Cite examples of at least two different instances of humor and explain why the author used them where he did.

Essay Topic 3

Explain the concept of loneliness as it is exhibited in the story. Which of the characters are lonely? Are they all lonely in some way? Explain the loneliness and the methods and attempts to overcome it.

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