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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 position does Duke Samuel Vimes hold with the Ankh-Morpork City Watch?
(a) Commander.
(b) Admiral.
(c) General.
(d) Sergeant.

2. What creatures are small and heavily-bearded people who always dress in chain mail and iron helmets and carry battle axes?
(a) Golem.
(b) Dwarfs.
(c) Imp.
(d) Troll.

3. Approximately how old is the Patrician's dog?
(a) 8.
(b) 12.
(c) 10.
(d) 16.

4. Whom does William claim he suspects is a werewolf and that he's seen gargoyles spying on him when talking with Vimes?
(a) Colon.
(b) Detritus.
(c) Angua.
(d) Nobbs.

5. Who is for seven years the President of the Guild of Shoemakers and Leathermakers and favored to succeed the dishonored Patrician?
(a) Tuttle Scrope.
(b) Igor.
(c) Mr. Wintler.
(d) Harry King.

Short Answer Questions

1. What character intent on suicide does the protagonist interview on a fourth-floor parapet?

2. According to William, letters prove that people want to believe _________.

3. What pledge did Otto take to never again drink human blood or the b-vord as he refers to it?

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

5. Discworld rides on the back of four giant elephants who in turn stand on what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does William discover about the City Watch when he goes to investigate the murder at the Palace?

2. Describe the narrative style of The Truth. What stylistic elements depart from traditional format?

3. What happens when William interviews Arthur Crank?

4. What shortcoming do the editors find a solution in with Otto Chriek?

5. How is William's relationship with his father described in the novel? How does William's education relate to his occupation?

6. Who is the Patrician's look-alike? What other characters are introduced in pages 32-64?

7. What temptation does Otto face when Sacharissa is injured in pages 98-126? Why?

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

9. What does the Ankh-Morpork Inquirer do in an attempt to shut down the Times in pages 98-126?

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

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