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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 is favored to succeed Vetinari?
(a) Mr. Wintler.
(b) Mr. Scrope.
(c) Harry King.
(d) Mr. Slant.

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

3. While at the de Worde Estate, what does William demand that Father do, lest William publish everything that he has just recorded on he Dis-organizer?
(a) Leave town.
(b) Kill himself.
(c) Kill Otto.
(d) Admit his wrongs publicly.

4. What zombie does Pin want to talk to again before leaving town after fulfilling part of his contract with Tulip?
(a) William.
(b) Mr. Slant.
(c) Wuffles.
(d) Charlie.

5. 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 imp.
(c) A double blade.
(d) An illegal spring-gonne.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Gaspode dive when he comes to the bridge and sees all the other dogs?

2. Where do Pin and Tulip escape to hide as William's print shed collapses?

3. Whom does William grab across the table while demanding to know what everyone knows?

4. The dwarfs believe that using black light for iconography is bad luck, but the Times iconographer justifies it using what theory?

5. What is the real identity of the enormous nun who assists in dispersing the crowd attempting to pass off dogs for the reward at the Times?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What leads Pin to murder Tulip in pages 260-290?

4. What do Pin and Tulip do after forcing their way into Mr. Slant's office in pages 229-260?

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

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

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

8. What changes in William once he discovers his father's involvement in the plot?

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

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

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