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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. William calculates that $70,000 in coins would weigh how much?
(a) 1/3 of a ton.
(b) 1/5 of a ton.
(c) 1/4 of a ton.
(d) 1/2 of a ton.

2. What is another term for a staff representing an office, authority, or baton?
(a) Beater stick.
(b) Gun.
(c) Doffledorf.
(d) Truncheon.

3. Death shows Tulip an arc of ___________, representing the lives that he and Pin have shortened?
(a) Rainbows.
(b) Hourglasses.
(c) Shadows.
(d) Tulips.

4. What do Pin and Tulip do with the bag of dogs after escaping the Times headquarters?
(a) Dump them into the forest.
(b) Give them away.
(c) Throw them into the river.
(d) Shoot them.

5. Who kicks Pin in the groin to get him off William in a fight in the cellar?
(a) Tulip.
(b) Otto.
(c) Sacharrisa.
(d) Wuffles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who attacks the thugs summoned by William's father to take him away?

2. What machine of Otto's is smashed during the fight between Pin, Tulip, and the dwarfs outside the Times office?

3. How much money does William give Carney in jewels for a Guild membership in the end of the novel?

4. When William dictates his news article about conspiracy and Vetinari's innocence, he credits uncovering the plot to whom?

5. William and Otto arrive at the palace at the end of the novel, where __________ mother has sent a note claiming that he is sick.

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Otto takes an iconograph of Pin in pages 163-197?

2. What do Pin and Tulip do with the terriers in pages 163-197? How are the terriers saved?

3. What demand does William make of his father in the final section of the book? What is Lord de Worde's response?

4. What does the addition of color do to production of the Times?

5. Why do the dwarfs attempt to break into the Inquirer's office in pages 229-260? Who do they find?

6. What argument arises about the power and danger of dark light in pages 163-197?

7. What do Sacharissa and Rocky go to the de Worde townhouse for in pages 229-260? What do they discover?

8. What is the final outcome for Tulip in The Truth?

9. What excuse of Lord de Worde's does William refuse to accept in the final section of the book?

10. What leads to William's publishing a half-truth in pages 260-290? Who follows William when he goes to the de Worde estate?

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