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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 type of bird is circling the Tower of Art?

2. What are the wizards drinking at the feast?

3. What is Conina doing with Rincewind when we first meet them on the ship?

4. What does Rincewind suggest that he and Conina do to beat the attackers?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Luggage?

2. What is the Luggage made of and how does it feel about its master?

3. What happens with Coin's first encounter with the wizards?

4. How do Conina and Rincewind get the Magnificent Hat back after it is taken from them at The Troll's Head?

5. Specifically, how does Coin transform the Great Hall?

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

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

8. Explain how the sourcerer came to be.

9. Who is Conina's father and what is Conina best at doing? What does she want to be?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Pratchett's concept of Discworld. What holds it up? What surrounds its outside? What cities does it have? Who are its inhabitants. Why does the book say that there can be no map of Discworld?

Essay Topic 2

How is RIncewind the hero of the tale?

Essay Topic 3

What are the dynamics of the relationship between Coin and Ipslore (the staff)? How is the relationship destructive for Coin? How does he battle against it? How does he win? Is the reader sympathetic to him all the way through the novel or only after certain discoveries?

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