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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Brutha notice as Vorbis and the Tyrant are speaking to each other?
(a) There are too many soldiers in the room.
(b) The philosophers are gathering in the room.
(c) The Tyrant is slipping poison into the drink.
(d) Om is missing from his basket.

2. What does Om tell Brutha about the world?
(a) It's square.
(b) It's round.
(c) It's flat.
(d) It's oval.

3. What did Fri'it have to walk alone?
(a) The streets of the Citadel.
(b) The road to Ephebe.
(c) The ribbon of life.
(d) The desert.

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

5. According to the author, what is the world full of?
(a) Sin.
(b) Small gods.
(c) Eagles.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the monks in the Ramtop mountains do?

2. Where is Brutha when he hears the voice?

3. What does Vorbis call the Ephebians?

4. What does Vorbis want to do to Ephebe?

5. What does Discworld rest on?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Vorbis, and how do others view him?

2. What does Om remember about his ascension to power?

3. What does Burtha doubt, and how does Om prove it to him?

4. What does Om realize as he is crawling his way up the stairs?

5. What do the Omnians think of their Tyrant, and how does he act?

6. Why is torture acceptable according to Brutha?

7. What happens when the eagle swoops down over the Place of Lamentation?

8. What does Nhumrod do when he hears Om?

9. What does the captain admit to Brutha when he sees compassion?

10. What is the relationship between eagles and tortoises, according to the author?

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