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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Vorbis doing when Brutha barges in on him?
(a) Preparing for a service.
(b) Eating.
(c) Praying.
(d) Torturing a novice.

2. Why is the slave complaining?
(a) His son was taken from him.
(b) He has been whipped.
(c) He only gets one day off and has to pay for his own transportation if he runs away.
(d) His food rations were cut.

3. Who are gathering beneath the Citadel?
(a) Musicians.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Cloaked revolutionaries.
(d) Priests.

4. What does Sergeant Simony regret?
(a) That he has to fight.
(b) The he can't kill Vorbis.
(c) That he has to leave home.
(d) That he can't live longer.

5. Why won't the philosophers discuss the gods?
(a) They respect them so much that they don't want to mention the god's names.
(b) They only believe in one true god and won't acknowledge others.
(c) They are fearful of getting struck down from the heavens.
(d) They aren't worth talking about.

6. Who does Brutha bring to the garden to see the tortoise?
(a) Drunah.
(b) Nhumrod.
(c) Om.
(d) Fri'it.

7. How does the tortoise speak to Brutha?
(a) Quietly.
(b) Through sign language.
(c) He doesn't.
(d) Telepathically.

8. What does Vorbis want to do to Ephebe?
(a) Build a new monestary there.
(b) Attack.
(c) Honor it.
(d) Raze it.

9. Why is it so hard for Om to ascend the staircase?
(a) He is dried out from being upside down in the sun.
(b) He is constantly knocked by people's feet.
(c) He is too small.
(d) His leg is broken.

10. Where is Lu-Tze supposed to travel to?
(a) His mother's house.
(b) The Citadel.
(c) Ramtop.
(d) Omnia.

11. What does Discworld rest on?
(a) A tortoise.
(b) A space ocean.
(c) The edge of the Milky Way.
(d) A desert.

12. What appears on the horizon on the fourth day?
(a) A glittering light.
(b) A brilliant moon.
(c) An eagle.
(d) A group of tortoises.

13. What room does Om nearly fall into?
(a) The prayer chamber.
(b) The torture chamber.
(c) The meeting room.
(d) The kitchen.

14. Who was Om's first believer?
(a) Brutha.
(b) Vorbis.
(c) A shepherd.
(d) A gardner.

15. How did Om travel on the long journey?
(a) In a wicker box on Brutha's shoulder.
(b) In Brutha's hands.
(c) In Brutha's pocket.
(d) In a satchel tied to a camel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Om compare Vorbis to?

2. What is Brutha supposed to do in the place he is ordered to go?

3. According to the author, what is the world full of?

4. How do the clergy regard Vorbis?

5. What does Vorbis accuse the Ephebians of?

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