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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. In Biers Bar, Pin and a poorly coordinated Tulip retreat from a deadly standoff with which being?
(a) A drunkard.
(b) A half-werewolf.
(c) A troll.
(d) A vampire.

2. Who convinces the staff of the Inquirer to take the night off for $100 at the end of the novel?
(a) Gunilla.
(b) William.
(c) Sacharissa.
(d) Otto.

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

4. When was Terry Pratchett born?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1942.

5. Whom does Gunilla want to marry?
(a) Wintler.
(b) Überwald.
(c) Boddony.
(d) Cripslock.

Short Answer Questions

1. A priest from the Om temple and an enormous nun named ______________ offer assistance in dispersing the crowd attempting to pass off dogs for the reward at the Times.

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

3. When William returns from protective custody at the end of the novel, Slant confirms that who has been elected Patrician?

4. What does William imply to Vimes that Scrope's business is actually manufacturing?

5. Who is the longest-surviving lodger at the Lodging House for Respectable Working Men?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What argument arises about the power and danger of dark light in pages 163-197?

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