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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Discworld's premier school of wizardry?
(a) Invisible University.
(b) The Invisible College.
(c) Unseen University.
(d) The College of the Unseen.

2. What do the small dog and figure wearing a strange and grubby coat and a brimmed hat in the beginning of the novel share?
(a) A beer.
(b) A sausage.
(c) A hamburger.
(d) Lasagna.

3. The author writes in the beginning of the novel that William has always been troubled by the nature of _________.
(a) Death.
(b) Life.
(c) Love.
(d) Truth.

4. Who is Ankh-Morpork's most enterprisingly unsuccessful entrepreneur?
(a) Dr. A. A. Dinwiddie.
(b) Cut Me Own Throat (C.M.O.T.) Dibbler.
(c) Otto Chriek.
(d) Sgt. Detritus.

5. Which member of the Misbegot Bridge Crew uses the loss of both legs to full advantage in bar fights?
(a) Tuttle Scrope.
(b) Arthur Crank.
(c) Rufus Drumknott.
(d) Arnold Sideways.

6. What is a wahoonie?
(a) A vehicle.
(b) An animal.
(c) A race.
(d) A vegetable.

7. After William leaves the Watch headquarters, Angua warns Vimes not to underestimate William's powers of ___________.
(a) Hypnosis.
(b) Persuasion.
(c) Observation.
(d) Meditation.

8. What was fired at the Patrician's dog, missing and lodging in the carpet, forming prime evidence?
(a) A gun.
(b) A crossbow.
(c) A laser.
(d) A slingshot.

9. What unimaginative member of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch was born above the snow line on a distant mountain and never saw a human until he was five?
(a) Sgt. Detritus.
(b) Cpl. Nobby Nobbs.
(c) Sgt. Fred Colon.
(d) Sgt. Angua.

10. What is Ankh-Morpork's second newspaper?
(a) The Morprk Reporter.
(b) The Morprk Gazette.
(c) Ankh-Morpork Inquirer.
(d) The Ankh Reporter.

11. Who is the personal secretary to Lord Havelock Vetinari?
(a) Sgt. Angua.
(b) Sacharissa Cripslock.
(c) Arthur Crank.
(d) Rufus Drumknott.

12. What is Otto Chriek's position for the Ankh-Morpork Times?
(a) Editor.
(b) Reporter.
(c) Delivery person.
(d) Iconographer.

13. What are miniature, magical, and long-eared creatures that in Discworld enable and operate various appliances?
(a) Trolls.
(b) Wizards.
(c) Imps.
(d) Golems.

14. What refers to a group of Ankh-Morpork notables devoted to saving the city from oblivion?
(a) Committee to Impeach the Patrician.
(b) Committee to Unelect the Patrician.
(c) Council to Impeach the Patrician.
(d) Council to Unelect the Patrician.

15. What refers to the act or practice of calling public attention to one's product, service, need, etc.?
(a) Bragging.
(b) Canvasing.
(c) Advertising.
(d) Brainwashing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many dwarfs have migrated to Ankh-Morpork in the beginning of the novel?

2. On guard duty in the beginning of the novel, Sgt. Colon and Cpl. Nobbs admit to seeing a rowboat in which who was bickering?

3. Vetinari, upon first arriving at William's office, has his fears allayed that the shed is not built on a crack in _________.

4. The author writes that one can cross the city of Ankh-Morpork underground with ___________.

5. What clothes seller in Pseudopolis is a look-alike for the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork?

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