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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 does Spelter suggest that the wizards do with Coin?

2. What does the head chef use to carve statues?

3. How does the Patrician respond to Carding's words of the future of the city?

4. Who is Conina's father?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is the Luggage?

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

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

9. How is Rincewind first described? Why does he leave the Unseen University?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Nijel feel about Conina? How does Rincewind feel about Conina? How does Luggage feel about Conina? How are each of them affected by her? Why are they attracted to her?

Essay Topic 2

How does the genie of the lamp differ from the traditional genies found in lamps in other literature? Why might Pratchett have created such a genie? Be specific when making the comparison.

Essay Topic 3

"It is a well-known established fact throughout the many-dimensional worlds of the multiverse that most really great discoveries are owed to one brief moment of inspiration." Explain Terry Pratchett's philosophy in regard to this quote and how the great discovery did or did not work in Discworld.

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