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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 warning is Rincewind given?

2. What level of wizardry has Rincewind achieved?

3. Why does Rincewind put on the hat while on the ship?

4. What happened to Larry the Fox when he took the hat from Troll's Head?

5. What convinces Rincewind that he should help the shadow?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Carding and Spelter feel about Coin after seeing his first feats?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is the Luggage?

9. How do the townspeople react when the wizards enter the streets and announce they are now ruling the city?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Explain the theme of lust for power, and show how it affects the story line.

Essay Topic 3

How is RIncewind the hero of the tale?

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