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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which son becomes the sourcerer?
(a) The eighth son of the second wizard.
(b) The eighth son of the eighth son.
(c) The eighth son of the second son.
(d) The eighth son squared.

2. What does Billias create after he is challenged by Coin?
(a) A river in a glittering ball.
(b) A castle in a glittering ball.
(c) A garden in a glittering ball.
(d) A dragon in a glittering ball.

3. What decision does Rincewind make about the hat after it is taken from the ship?
(a) He will find out where it is and then leave it there.
(b) He will seek it out and protect it.
(c) He will let it go.
(d) He will take it back from the captain.

4. What is Conina doing with Rincewind when we first meet them on the ship?
(a) She is cutting his hair.
(b) They are playing cards.
(c) She is telling him jokes.
(d) They are eating lunch.

5. What does Coin do to Billias?
(a) He turns him into a newt.
(b) He vanishes him.
(c) He places him in a chair where he cannot move from.
(d) He banishes him to the glittering ball.

6. Why does the wizard make Koble explode?
(a) Koble tries to sell his wares to the wizard.
(b) Koble says he hates wizards.
(c) Koble tries to punch the wizard.
(d) Koble tells the wizard to go back to the University.

7. What does Spelter tell the Librarian the first time he visits him after Coin arrives?
(a) "Let me come in and stay with you."
(b) "Leave the library."
(c) "Turn the Patrician back into a man."
(d) "Trust no one."

8. What does Conina see in the water?
(a) A pirate ship.
(b) An ocean liner.
(c) Five canoes filled with men.
(d) Sharks.

9. What does Spelter suggest that the wizards do with Coin?
(a) Turn him out into the night.
(b) Defeat him.
(c) Lock him up.
(d) Help him.

10. Why does Rincewind put on the hat while on the ship?
(a) It wants to use his eyes.
(b) He wants to ask it a question.
(c) He wants to check out its power.
(d) It wants to make him more powerful.

11. Why does Ardrothy leave the city?
(a) The wizards can make better pie than he.
(b) He lost all of his pies.
(c) The wizards tell him to leave.
(d) He doesn't like wizards.

12. How does Wuffles respond to Coin?
(a) He bites him.
(b) He cowers away from him.
(c) He groals a deep gutteral growl.
(d) He licks him.

13. What does Ipslore make of metal?
(a) A staff.
(b) A crib.
(c) A wand.
(d) A talisman.

14. What does Coin do to the pictures of the Archchancellors hanging in the Great Hall?
(a) He makes them vanish.
(b) He cleans them.
(c) He has them taken down and stored away.
(d) He burns them.

15. What carries the mattress across the lawn of the University?
(a) Mice.
(b) Ants.
(c) Bed bugs.
(d) Rats.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the magnificent hat sit?

2. What happens to Rincewind at the end of the attack?

3. What kind of a ruler is the city's Patrician?

4. How old is the sourcerer when he arrives at the University?

5. What does Carding say that they should give Coin after he shows them how strong his magic is?

(see the answer keys)

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