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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 does Dios, the high priest, continue to do?

2. The reader is taken back to what time?

3. What happens to Teppic when he reaches a rooftop that had always had a ledge and plank connecting that roof to the neighboring roof?

4. Does Teppic pass the final exam?

5. What is Mericet doing in the room?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Teppic find as he reaches the last room of the exam? What else does he notice in the room?

2. What must happen to the man whose hand was touched by Teppic? How does Teppic feel about this?

3. What is learned about Ephebe and Tsort?

4. Why does Dios want the pyramid to be done in three months?

5. What happens to King Teppicymon XXVII when the sun is blotted out by a dark shadow?

6. What does the Pharaoh think about his ability to make the sun rise?

7. Describe Discworld.

8. What information is learned about Teppic when he falls from the roof?

9. What does Teppic learn about the person he had killed during the test?

10. How will the builders use the time loop to their advantage?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Teppic resides over the supreme court.

Part 1) What power does he have as the judge at the court? Why?

Part 2) What might this say about our own supreme court and those who rule over it? What message does this send to the reader?

Part 3) What other aspects of this book reflect aspects in our own culture? Are these positive reflections of our society? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Ephebe and Tsort are only separated by Djelibeybi.

Part 1) What happens when Djelibeybi disappears? Why does this happen?

Part 2) How do the actions of Ephebe and Tsort resemble stories from our own world? What does this say about our own stories?

Part 3) How different would our world be if certain nations were removed from it? What changes would occur? Would these changes be good or bad? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Teppic seems to have real power.

Part 1) How do you know this? From where does this power come?

Part 2) How does his power affect others? How is it important to the plot of the story? How is his power foreshadowed early in the story?

Part 3) Who in our own world has real power? Describe this power.

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