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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. What machine of Otto's is smashed during the fight between Pin, Tulip, and the dwarfs outside the Times office?
(a) His bicycle.
(b) His amulet.
(c) His iconograph.
(d) His glasses.

2. Late in the novel, what drives Mr. Pin to see ghosts of past victims?
(a) A dream.
(b) A bat.
(c) An obscurograph.
(d) A conversation with Tulip.

3. Who is an enormous, pink, and thin-haired man who dresses in shirtsleeves and constantly smokes a huge cigar to protect him from the odors of his profession?
(a) Deep Bone.
(b) Harry King.
(c) Wuffles.
(d) Ole Foul Ron.

4. Who is the longest-surviving lodger at the Lodging House for Respectable Working Men?
(a) Mr. Mackleduff.
(b) Mr. Slant.
(c) Tuttle Scrope.
(d) Rufus Drumknott.

5. Who attacks the thugs summoned by William's father to take him away?
(a) Wuffles.
(b) Gunilla.
(c) Otto.
(d) Sacharissa.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does William find Sacharissa haranguing Dibbler about writing believable untruths for the Inquirer?

2. William calculates that $70,000 in coins would weigh how much?

3. Otto complains about how hard it is to __________ in the big city, with its women dressed in fancy clothing.

4. What does Tulip wear on a string around his neck, which assures him of returning to life after he dies, no matter what he has done?

5. Where is Tuttle Scrope's leatherwork shop supposed to be headquartered?

Short Essay Questions

1. What excuse of Lord de Worde's does William refuse to accept in the final section of the book?

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

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

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

5. What leads up to the climax of The Truth in pages 260-290?

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

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

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

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

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

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