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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. Who leads the discussion of how Vetinari cleverly gets away with it but then skips over the far-fetched political stuff to talk about vegetables in the end of the novel?
(a) Macleduff.
(b) William.
(c) Sacharissa.
(d) Otto.

2. After speaking with William, Dibbler accepts a commission job _________ for the Times.
(a) Writing obituaries.
(b) Writing as a reporter.
(c) Selling advertising space.
(d) Writing wedding announcements.

3. William conducts a formal interview with Wuffles that is translated by whom?
(a) Deep Bone.
(b) Sgt. Angua.
(c) Mustrum Ridcully.
(d) Trixiebelle.

4. When Slant tries to sneak a few fake diamonds into his payment to Pin and Tulip, what does Pin pull on him?
(a) A spring blade.
(b) An illegal spring-gonne.
(c) An imp.
(d) A double blade.

5. Where is Tuttle Scrope's leatherwork shop supposed to be headquartered?
(a) Wilsontown.
(b) Whitesburg.
(c) Weathersfield.
(d) Wixson's Alley.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the destruction of the printing press, William considers he cannot afford another because he still owes money to whom?

2. What does the enormous nun do with the terriers brought for the reward by the crowd to the Times?

3. What is Foul Ole Ron's favorite word?

4. What do Pin and Tulip break into the Temple of Om to steal?

5. Whom does Sacharissa pull a pistol bow on at the Inquirer at the end of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Pin and Tulip disguise themselves in pages 163-197? Why?

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

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

4. For whom is Tulip searching in pages 163-197? Why?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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