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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. When Vetinari invites the Times to a party at the end of the novel, William convinces Vetinari to attend and promote whose daughter's marriage?
(a) Mr. Downey's.
(b) Sacharissa's.
(c) Harry King's.
(d) Scrope's.

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

3. Who steals Pin's potato as Death makes Pin disappear in a flash of blue light?
(a) The Death Trolls.
(b) The Death Rats.
(c) The Death Bats.
(d) The Death Shadows.

4. Who is the High Priest of Blind Io and unofficial spokesman for Ankh-Morpork's religious establishment?
(a) Hughnon Ridcully.
(b) Sgt. Angua.
(c) Deep Bone.
(d) Ole Foul Ron.

5. Where is the Temple of Om?
(a) Worshippers Row.
(b) The Avenue of the Giants.
(c) The Street of Small Gods.
(d) The Boulevard of the Damned.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Terry Pratchett born?

2. Who declares that people find true only that which promotes survival and what is important to one is dull to others after the dwarf fight at the Times headquarters?

3. When Trixiebell and Deep Bone accompany William back to the print shed, Pin and Tulip are waiting, demanding to see whom?

4. What does Otto startle, causing the universe to fold away in chilling darkness and ice needles after the crowd disperses from the Times office?

5. What character is a psychotic taken over by eight personalities who switch dominance at five-minute intervals?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does William feel about his father's bigotry? How is this illustrated in pages 163-197?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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