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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. Who gives Rincewind a ride, and in what?
(a) Devious, in a maroon Chevrolet.
(b) Mad, in a cart pulled by eight horses.
(c) Angry, in a wagon pulled by four chickens.
(d) Preppy, in an emu drawn carriage.

2. What is superimposed over some figures, appearing to hold them into the rock?
(a) X's.
(b) Bars.
(c) Vines.
(d) Ocher hand prints.

3. How old is the graffiti on the walls at the oasis?
(a) 20,000 years.
(b) 40,000 years.
(c) 30,000 years.
(d) 50,000 years.

4. Who owns the pub?
(a) Crocodile Donstay.
(b) Alligator Stew.
(c) Crocodile Dongo.
(d) Crocodile Dunsee.

5. What makes Stibbons believe that they have gone back in time?
(a) His watch isn't working correctly.
(b) Evolution is less advanced.
(c) Everyone appears younger to him.
(d) The star groupings appear where they should have been thousands of years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mad believe water is found and why?

2. Why does the God curse himself?

3. Who alone possesses the spirit of scientific examination?

4. What happens to the huge reptile that stumbles out of the forest towards them?

5. Who focuses attention on Rincewind in his own abode?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mad not believe his grandfathers stories about rain?

2. What or who stalks Rincewind, and how does he respond?

3. What does Rincewind discover about the walls and rocks?

4. What does Mad tell Rincewind?

5. What does the Librarian wonder about?

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

7. 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?

8. What does Scrappy tell Rincewind about the continent they are on?

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

10. What is the grandfather paradox and why don't the elders accept the basic principle?

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