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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 amulet.
(b) His bicycle.
(c) His glasses.
(d) His iconograph.

2. At the end of the novel, William and Sacharissa go to a noodle place located on what street?
(a) Elm St. En route.
(b) Gleam Street.
(c) Guild Street.
(d) Wonderworld Street.

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

4. Biers Bar caters to whom?
(a) The Irish.
(b) The rich.
(c) The poor.
(d) The undead.

5. Who rescues the dogs that Pin and Tulip attempted to kill?
(a) The Misbegot Bridge Crew.
(b) Harry King.
(c) William.
(d) Deep Bone.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Wuffles attacks Pin in the print shed at the end of the novel, a crossbow misfire hits what object?

2. Whom does Gunilla want to marry?

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

4. When talking with Vimes at the end of the novel, William insists that there is enough to release Vetinari and offers to debate publicly his right to defend himself against what being?

5. Certain that they have drowned Wuffles after the fight at the Times headquarters, Tulip wants to kill whom and run away?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What do Pin and Tulip do with the terriers in pages 163-197? How are the terriers saved?

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

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

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

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

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