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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 place in Al Khali are Rincewind and Conina taken?

2. How many books are in the Library?

3. What word does Creosote ask Rincewind and Conina to rhyme?

4. How do wizards feel about philosophy?

5. What is the name of the lead wizard who Coin sends to the Library?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Rincewind on the night that he, Conina, Nijel, and Creosote make camp on the beach?

2. What does RIncewind insist on doing once the hat kills his first wizard?

3. Why does RIncewind fight the group about using the magic carpet?

4. What becomes of Spelter and why?

5. What is Creosote like when Rincewind and Conina first meet him?

6. What do the wizards do at Creosote's palace that so disturbs Rincewind, and how does he react when Nijel does not stop talking about it?

7. Why does Luggage leave Rincewind and walk through the dessert? Where does he go?

8. What does Coin create from the egg?

9. How do Rincewind and Nijel escape the snake pit?

10. What is Creosote's treasury room like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the novel come full circle in the end? Where are all of the characters, and what has become of them? Does the reader appreciate the full circle?

Essay Topic 2

What changes does Coin bring to Ankh-Morpork from the moment that he arrives to the moment that he leaves? What destruction has been caused because of these changes?

Essay Topic 3

What role does Death play in the novel? What about him is typical of the Death character as seen in other literature, and what is different?

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