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

2. Who kills Tulip at the end of the novel?
(a) Sacharissa.
(b) Pin.
(c) William.
(d) Otto.

3. 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?
(a) A potato.
(b) A precious stone.
(c) Garlic.
(d) A carrot.

4. Who leads the discussion of how Vetinari cleverly gets away with it but then skips over the far-fetched political stuff to talk about vegetables in the end of the novel?
(a) Macleduff.
(b) Sacharissa.
(c) William.
(d) Otto.

5. William writes a story for his paper disproving women in Lancre bearing ___________.
(a) Fish.
(b) Sheep.
(c) Children.
(d) Snakes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom does William grab across the table while demanding to know what everyone knows?

3. Who declares that people find true only that which promotes survival and what is important to one is dull to others after the dwarf fight at the Times headquarters?

4. Dwarf brides and grooms use the gold to buy what?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does William feel about his father's bigotry? How is this illustrated in pages 163-197?

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

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

5. What do Pin and Tulip do after forcing their way into Mr. Slant's office in pages 229-260?

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

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

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

9. How do Pin and Tulip disguise themselves in pages 163-197? Why?

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

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