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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rincewind follow blindly?
(a) A message in a bottle.
(b) His instincts.
(c) A bird painting who steps out of a stone.
(d) A dream.

2. What happens when Rincewind rejects further help?
(a) He is beaten by a kangaroo.
(b) He is stung by a scorpion.
(c) He is gored by a bull.
(d) He is bitten by a tarantula.

3. Who mentions needing a smoke?
(a) Mrs. Whitlow.
(b) The professor.
(c) The Dean.
(d) Stibbons.

4. Who should know the location of Fourecks?
(a) The Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography.
(b) The Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Topography.
(c) The Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Photography.
(d) The Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geology.

5. What does Mrs. Whitlow unintentionally do?
(a) Stir up passion in the wizards.
(b) Use magic.
(c) Find the Professor.
(d) Get lost.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rincewind use to craft new sandals?

2. What makes Stibbons believe that they have gone back in time?

3. How does Discworld move through space?

4. Who does Rincewind claim to have met while the world was being made?

5. What is necessary for a magical cure?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is strange about the watering hole that Rincewind falls into when he is running from Scrappy?

2. What assertion is made about all tribal myths, including the one about the old man who carries the universe around in a leather bag, and what is that assertion dependent upon?

3. What does Death find professionally frustrating, and why?

4. What is pursuing Rincewind and Mad and how does Mad manage to pull away from them?

5. What do the wizards find when they go looking for the Egregious Professor, and what is the outcome of this discovery?

6. How will Rincewind know that he has succeeded in saving the continent, and what claims does Rincewind make?

7. What is wrong with the Librarian that is causing Rincewind to be sought by the Unseen University?

8. What do the wizards manage to find in the way of food?

9. What appears out of the burning marsh and why?

10. How do the wizards become stranded on Mono Island?

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