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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 refers to the patient, hardworking, logical, and indestructible people who protect Ankh-Morpork from the ever-present threat of fire?
(a) Morpork Volunteer Fire Brigade.
(b) Golem Volunteer Fire Brigade.
(c) Ankh Volunteer Fire Brigade.
(d) Imp Volunteer Fire Brigade.

2. What pledge did Otto take to never again drink human blood or the b-vord as he refers to it?
(a) The pledge of Self Control.
(b) The Fluid of Life pledge.
(c) The Red Fluid pledge.
(d) Uberwald Temperance Movement pledge.

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

4. What character is about 34 years old, skinny, smelly, and chain smokes without exhaling?
(a) Sgt. Detritus.
(b) Sgt. Fred Colon.
(c) Cpl. Nobby Nobbs.
(d) Rufus Drumknott.

5. The Guild blocks the engraving of iconographs, but Otto believes that he can teach the imps to ________.
(a) Carve stone.
(b) Use typewriters.
(c) Draw in the dirt.
(d) Etch plates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What newspaper does William de Worde establish in the novel?

2. William and Sacharissa are interrupted in the beginning of the novel by a short and red-faced man who presents which possible story idea?

3. Who is Ankh-Morpork's most enterprisingly unsuccessful entrepreneur?

4. Who is the first woman to join the Ankh-Morpork City Watch?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is William's reaction to the outselling of the Times in pages 32-64? How has his audience changed?

2. How does the discussion between William and the Patrician in pages 64-98 illuminate the theme of truth?

3. What happens to the thief who accosts Pin and Tulip in pages 98-126? What "prize" does Tulip gain?

4. How and why is a plot developed against the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork?

5. What elements of foreshadowing can be found in pages 98-126? What objects are highlighted in this section?

6. How is the theme of racism illustrated through William's hiring Otto Chriek?

7. What skills as a reporter does William learn in pages 98-126? How does he hold up against Carney and Slant?

8. Why does William go to the engravers in the beginning of the novel? How is the engraver's office described?

9. With what phrase in pages 98-126 does William agree with his father for once?

10. What are Pin and Tulip doing in the opening of The Truth? Whom do they pass?

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