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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. The author writes that one can cross the city of Ankh-Morpork underground with ___________.
(a) A boat.
(b) A system of tunnels.
(c) A pickaxe.
(d) A shovel.

2. When talking with William, the head of the forensic unit of the City Watch lets slip that the jailed Patrician has suffered what event?
(a) A blow to the head.
(b) Internal bleeding.
(c) A broken leg.
(d) Food poisoning.

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

4. 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 hamburger.
(b) A beer.
(c) A sausage.
(d) Lasagna.

5. Who is the proprietress of a Lodging House for Respectable Working Men?
(a) Ronnie Carney.
(b) Gunilla Goodmountain.
(c) Mrs. Eucrasia Arcanum.
(d) Boddony.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Foul Ole Ron's talking dog?

2. In the beginning of the novel, the dwarfs print 100 copies of William's newspaper and price each at ______.

3. The Ankh-Morpork Inquirer's first issue headlines a woman giving birth to what?

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

5. When talking with Vimes at the Watch headquarters, William suggests that the peppermint at the crime scene may have been used to thwart what creature?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Tulip and Pin described in the narrative? What was Pratchett's inspiration for the characters?

2. What does the rumor of the Patrician murdering his secretary turn out to be?

3. How do the Patrician and William meet? How do they differ on the value of letters?

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

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

6. How is Igor described? What news does William learn from him in pages 98-126?

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

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

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

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

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