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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 is Twoflower doing in Death's house?
(a) Teaching Death, Pestalince, War, and Famine to play cards.
(b) Teaching War how to dance.
(c) Teaching Death to whistle.
(d) Learning how to use Death's scythe.

2. What does Herrena say is the reason she wasn't cut out to be a wife?
(a) She was used to running things.
(b) Her temper is too short.
(c) She is too smart.
(d) She had broken the colar bone of the first man that propsed.

3. Why does Rincewind think Ysabell will be better at the family business than Death is?
(a) She is bonkers.
(b) She knows Karate.
(c) She is really creepy.
(d) Just a feeling he has.

4. What does the greatest hero in Discworld NOT answer when he is asked what is it that a man may call the greatest things in life?
(a) Hot water.
(b) Good dentistry.
(c) A good woman.
(d) Soft lavatory paper.

5. What is the literal meaning of the world Skund, the forest where Twoflower and Rincewind are located?
(a) Your Finger You Fool.
(b) Your red scarf matches your eyes.
(c) Bowling Balls of Magical Proportions.
(d) No, not there. Anywhere but there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Chancellor, Galder, first see forming inside the magic fireball?

2. What does Rincewind say he thinks that ambiance is?

3. What translation does Rincewind associate with Twoflower's use of the words 'picturesque' and 'quaint'?

4. What does Death say he had been doing when the wizards called him?

5. What attitude is Twoflower described as having when he interrupts the sacrifice?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the girl, Bethan, upset when she is rescued by Twoflower and Rincewind?

2. When Trymon calls a meeting what does he explain he has done in order to locate Rincewind and what is the reaction to this decision?

3. What happens when Rincewind and the others gets to the Horse People and the old woman who is a necromancer?

4. What does Cohen do to the Luggage after escaping from the Troll's mouth?

5. What happens when Herrena gets them to the water's edge and summons the ferryman?

6. Describe the cottage that is found.

7. What does Death tell the wizards is going on?

8. What does Rincewind think when Twoflower asks for the picturebox?

9. Describe the hero that is searching for Rincewind.

10. What does Trymon learn about Rincewind's zodiac sign and his horoscope?

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