View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Coin decide to do with the University?

2. Where does Ipslore go after Death hits him with lightening?

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

4. What does Coin want all wizards to gather for?

5. What carries Discworld?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Explain how the sourcerer came to be.

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

9. What is the Luggage?

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

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

The character of Creosote is round yet static. Explain how Creosote is described using both direct and indirect characterization.

Essay Topic 3

How is the Librarian the stability and soundness of thought throughout the entire novel? What is his goal? Why does he remain an ape and not a man?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 951 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample