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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 job does William give to Sacharissa Crisplock to placate her in the beginning of the novel?
(a) Reporter.
(b) Cook.
(c) Nun.
(d) Nurse.

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

3. Leaving his meeting with Vetinari, William encounters a crowd urging a man to do what?
(a) Shoot himself.
(b) Stab himself.
(c) Fight another man.
(d) Jump off a ledge.

4. Sacharissa's first story for William's paper is about what competition?
(a) The Mystery Meat Pizza Soiree.
(b) The Dolly Sisters Baking and Flower Circle Annual Competition.
(c) The Swanson Sweet Potato Bakeoff.
(d) The Dolly Sisters Sweet Potato Caserole Competition.

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?
(a) Dr. A. A. Dinwiddie.
(b) Mrs. Eucrasia Arcanum and her Boarders.
(c) Sgt. Fred Colon and Cpl. Nobby Nobbs.
(d) Pin and Tulip.

Short Answer Questions

1. What bleak and spartan boarding school in Ankh-Morpork is the protagonist's alma mater?

2. Who is the chief of the print-setting dwarfs?

3. Which member of the Misbegot Bridge Crew uses the loss of both legs to full advantage in bar fights?

4. Whom does William claim he suspects is a werewolf and that he's seen gargoyles spying on him when talking with Vimes?

5. Vetinari is shocked to read the Times' report of how many people being hurt in a brawl?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is revealed about the City Watch and Commander Vimes in pages 32-64?

2. What reporter does William hire in pages 32-64? How is she described?

3. What obstructions does the Guild of Engravers pose for the Times in pages 98-126?

4. What happens when William interviews Arthur Crank?

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

6. Describe the satirical elements in the scene at the Oblong Office in pages 98-126. What is the key evidence?

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

8. What clues does William discover and expand on in the Oblong Office in pages 98-126?

9. What news opens the novel The Truth? Who records this news?

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

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