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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. Where does Gaspode dive when he comes to the bridge and sees all the other dogs?
(a) Into the river.
(b) Onto a bus.
(c) Aboard the St. John.
(d) Under Ole Foul Ron's coat.

2. Who feeds Sacharissa's news stories, being sweet on her?
(a) Constable Featherby.
(b) Constable Fiddyment.
(c) Constable Fidgety.
(d) Constable Flimwabby.

3. Who rescues the dogs that Pin and Tulip attempted to kill?
(a) Deep Bone.
(b) The Misbegot Bridge Crew.
(c) William.
(d) Harry King.

4. How many thugs does William's father summon to take William away in the end of the novel?
(a) Five.
(b) Six.
(c) Seven.
(d) Four.

5. Checking Pin's pockets after he is dead, William finds the incriminating Dis-organizer, bags of jewels, and a card with what address?
(a) The de Worde home.
(b) The Palace.
(c) Sacharissa's home.
(d) The Inquirer headquarters.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Biers Bar, Pin and a poorly coordinated Tulip retreat from a deadly standoff with which being?

2. From whom does William borrow scales?

3. In Greek mythology, who was the king punished by being compelled to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down?

4. Who is the Archchancellor of Unseen University?

5. At the end of the novel, William and Sacharissa go to a noodle place located on what street?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What symbolic imagery is depicted in the destruction of the shed in pages 260-290? How is Death described?

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

5. Why does a crowd form at the Times in pages 197-229? What does Sacharissa make of it?

6. How does William go about finding his own proof for the Patrician's innocent in pages 163-197?

7. Who leads William to Wuffles in pages 229-260?

8. Where does William find the money to rebuild and prove the conspiracy in pages 260-290?

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

10. Whom does William hire as his lawyer in the end of the novel? Why?

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