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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. Standing in the circle of chairs, Slant reports the missing dog but discounts its importance to whom?
(a) Himself.
(b) It's owner.
(c) Sgt. Angua von Überwald.
(d) The Watch.

2. What does Dibbler generally fall back on selling when his other entrepreneurial efforts fail?
(a) Hot sausages-inna-bun.
(b) Sweet potato sausages.
(c) Leather gloves.
(d) Hot potato cakes.

3. At his interview with Wuffles, William wants an iconograph to prove that he has talked with Wuffles to be taken back at the Times, for how much money?
(a) $80.
(b) $50.
(c) $40.
(d) $100.

4. Whom does William's father run through with his sword in the de Worde Estate at the end of the novel?
(a) Wuffles.
(b) Otto.
(c) Gunilla.
(d) Sacharissa.

5. When talking with Vimes at the end of the novel, William insists that there is enough to release Vetinari and offers to debate publicly his right to defend himself against what being?
(a) A vampire.
(b) A werewolf.
(c) A dwarf.
(d) A troll.

Short Answer Questions

1. William finds his father and is not satisfied by the father's excuse that _______________.

2. Where is the Temple of Om?

3. Who feeds Sacharissa's news stories, being sweet on her?

4. Who rescues the dogs that Pin and Tulip attempted to kill?

5. What refers to the directory of all the nobility of Ankh-Morpork and its satellites, describing their lineage and titles?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What theological discussion do Pin and Tulip share in pages 229-260?

3. What religious allusion is in Pin and Tulip's disguises in pages 163-197?

4. What does Otto resist doing to Lord de Worde in the end of the novel?

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

6. What does the Committee to Unelect the Patrician think of the Times in pages 163-197?

7. What symbolic argument takes place between William and Vimes in pages 163-197?

8. How does William's sense of the truth affect him as a newspaper writer?

9. What event shows William and Sacharissa's dedication to the news at the end of the novel?

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

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