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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. How old is the graffiti on the walls at the oasis?

2. Where does Mad take Rincewind?

3. What happens when Rincewind rejects further help?

4. Where do black and white figures appear to Rincewind?

5. What does the Librarian wonder?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the Librarian wonder about?

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

4. Why are the magicians and the teachers of magic so determined to retrieve Rincewind the Wizzard from Fourecks?

5. 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?

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

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

8. How did Rincewind the Wizzard get lost on the largely mythical continent of Fourecks?

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

10. What does Mad tell Rincewind?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What issue is the God on Mono Island attempting to overcome? What suggestions are made by the wizards? Who is tasked with explaining the process to the God?

Essay Topic 2

Who is most likely able to direct the wizards to Rincewind? What do they find when they go to his quarters? What chain of events is set in motion and what room does it all begin in? How do the wizards become stranded and where?

Essay Topic 3

What are the central themes of this novel? How does the author combine them? What do they all have in common? How does the author successfully bridge the gap between fantasy and reality for each theme?

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