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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 is the name of the street vending family operating across Discworld?

2. Who eliminates the watchmen's threat?

3. What does Rincewind feel coming on?

4. What does the boat do when the wizards are preparing to depart?

5. What is the normal sheep shearing rate?

Short Essay Questions

1. What incident causes Rincewind to be incarcerated?

2. What does Stibbons consequently learn that makes him change his mind about staying with the God on Mono Island to create new life forms?

3. Where does the Bursar go, and what does he see?

4. What is at first lost and then returns to the wizards from the boat and how is this helpful to the wizards?

5. What few simple pleasures does Rincewind enjoy at the dry waterhole?

6. What was the effect of temporal displacement on Mrs. Whitlow, and how did those who saw her first respond?

7. What does the God of Evolution suggest that Stibbons start with in his efforts to help and to learn and what does the God believe?

8. What conclusion does Rincewind come to after the earthquake forces him and Neilette to use Luggage and Trunkie as refuge?

9. When the boat that the wizards are in comes apart, what do they do, and who is the only one to swim for shore?

10. What happens when the warden and the watchmen arrive at the Opera House?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What colloquial references are made to the people of Australia? How did this add to the set and setting of the novel? Could other cultural references have been to no detriment of the overall plot? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Although Rincewind finds a place where he seems to belong, he doesn't stay there. Suggest reasons for this. Which characters come back from the earlier parts of the novels to attempt to convince him to stay? What kinds of lives do they offer him if he does so?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how Rincewind overcomes the different challenges that he is faced with. Is he more of a hands on guy or would rather be helped along? Explain your answer.

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