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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 do the attackers of the ship want?

2. What does Carding suggest that the wizards do with Coin?

3. What question does Coin direct to Hakardly?

4. Why does the wizard make Koble explode?

5. What level of wizardry has Rincewind achieved?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Carding when he touches the staff for the first time?

2. What is the Luggage?

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

4. What occurs between Carding and the Patrician?

5. What does the Magnificent Hat tell Rincewind and Conina that they must do?

6. What does Rincewind tell Conina about what he would like to see his future hold?

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

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

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

10. How does the Magnificent Hat convince Conina and Rincewind to get on the boat and go far from the Unseen University?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Critics have said that the novel is humorous. What does Pratchett make fun of? What is his point in poking fun? Does the humor enhance the storyline?

Essay Topic 2

Conina's character is both humorous and strong. In what way is her character humorous? How does this contrast to her strengths?

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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