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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. Where does William find Sacharissa haranguing Dibbler about writing believable untruths for the Inquirer?
(a) Under Smith Street.
(b) Behind Dibbler's house.
(c) Under Gleam Street.
(d) In the attic of the Times headquarters.

2. As Wuffles attacks Pin in the print shed at the end of the novel, a crossbow misfire hits what object?
(a) A vase.
(b) A chair.
(c) A painting.
(d) An oil lamp.

3. William calculates that $70,000 in coins would weigh how much?
(a) 1/4 of a ton.
(b) 1/2 of a ton.
(c) 1/3 of a ton.
(d) 1/5 of a ton.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Slant tries to sneak a few fake diamonds into his payment to Pin and Tulip, what does Pin pull on him?

2. What pink, talking poodle does Williams follow from the bridge to the stinking hideaway beneath when looking for Wuffles?

3. Whom does William's father run through with his sword in the de Worde Estate at the end of the novel?

4. William offers a reward of how much for the Patrician's dog, figuring that he might need to be on the Watch's good side?

5. Who steals Pin's potato as Death makes Pin disappear in a flash of blue light?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Whom does William hire as his lawyer in the end of the novel? Why?

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

4. What does the Committee to Unelect the Patrician think of the Times in pages 163-197?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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