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

2. The dwarfs believe that using black light for iconography is bad luck, but the Times iconographer justifies it using what theory?
(a) Juxtaposition of Space Theory.
(b) Temporal Relevance Theory.
(c) Quantum Theory.
(d) Time-Space Theory.

3. Who kicks Pin in the groin to get him off William in a fight in the cellar?
(a) Wuffles.
(b) Tulip.
(c) Sacharrisa.
(d) Otto.

4. Otto complains about how hard it is to __________ in the big city, with its women dressed in fancy clothing.
(a) Stay on the wagon.
(b) Be truthful.
(c) Keep your mind out of the gutter.
(d) Mind your manners.

5. After the destruction of the printing press, William considers he cannot afford another because he still owes money to whom?
(a) Otto.
(b) Sacharissa.
(c) Gunilla.
(d) Harry King.

Short Answer Questions

1. Death shows Tulip an arc of ___________, representing the lives that he and Pin have shortened?

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

3. William and Otto arrive at the palace at the end of the novel, where __________ mother has sent a note claiming that he is sick.

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What leads to William's publishing a half-truth in pages 260-290? Who follows William when he goes to the de Worde estate?

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