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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. Who steals Pin's potato as Death makes Pin disappear in a flash of blue light?
(a) The Death Bats.
(b) The Death Rats.
(c) The Death Trolls.
(d) The Death Shadows.

2. What does Dibbler generally fall back on selling when his other entrepreneurial efforts fail?
(a) Hot sausages-inna-bun.
(b) Leather gloves.
(c) Sweet potato sausages.
(d) Hot potato cakes.

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

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

5. What is taken from Tulip just before he is killed?
(a) His jewelry.
(b) His potato.
(c) His money.
(d) His hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has an idea for Gaspode's disguise under the Misbegot Bridge?

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

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

4. What zombie does Pin want to talk to again before leaving town after fulfilling part of his contract with Tulip?

5. Who convinces the staff of the Inquirer to take the night off for $100 at the end of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where does William find the money to rebuild and prove the conspiracy in pages 260-290?

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

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

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

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

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

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