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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. Who is Conina's father?
(a) Cohen the Barbarian.
(b) Ipslore the Red.
(c) Billias the Wizard.
(d) Coin the Sourcerer.

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

3. What question does Coin direct to Hakardly?
(a) "How many wizards are there?"
(b) "Why Hakardly are you not in charge?"
(c) "Why do wizards hide in the University?"
(d) "Why don't wizards rule the world?"

4. What causes Carding to go flying across the room into the wall?
(a) He tries to conjure up magic.
(b) He tries to make Coin do something.
(c) He touches Coin.
(d) He touches Coin's staff.

5. What question does the shadow ask Rincewind?
(a) What should he drink?
(b) Does he know a wizard who will take risks?
(c) Where is the University?
(d) Will Rincewind join him on a quest?

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Conina tell Rincewind about the hat after the attackers are gone?

2. Why is Ipslore so angry at the wizards in the opening of the story?

3. Where does the magnificent hat sit?

4. How does Rincewind get his directions as to what to do to help get rid of the sourcerer after he meets Conina?

5. What does Carding tell the Patrician when he is transported to the Great Hall?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Rincewind and Conina aboard the ship?

2. What does Coin first create when he challenges Billias?

3. What does Conina tell Rincewind about her father and herself?

4. What challenge does Coin propose to the wizards in regard to their power and Discworld?

5. What happens to the Magnificent Hat which was intended for the new Archchancellor?

6. Explain how the sourcerer came to be.

7. What is the new magic like at the Unseen University now that the sourcerer is there?

8. What occurs between Carding and the Patrician?

9. What does the Magnificent Hat claim about its own virtues?

10. How does Spelter's feeling change in regard to Coin, and what does he do about it?

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