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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 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) Otto.
(c) Sacharissa.
(d) William.

2. Who is the Archchancellor of Unseen University?
(a) Sgt. Angua.
(b) Mustrum Ridcully.
(c) Deep Bone.
(d) Ole Foul Ron.

3. Where do Pin and Tulip escape to hide as William's print shed collapses?
(a) The deck.
(b) The stone cellar.
(c) The attic.
(d) The backyard.

4. 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?
(a) Sacharissa.
(b) Gunilla.
(c) Otto.
(d) Charlie.

5. Whom does Sacharissa pull a pistol bow on at the Inquirer at the end of the novel?
(a) William.
(b) Otto.
(c) Gunilla.
(d) Carney.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is the Temple of Om?

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

4. 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?

5. What is Foul Ole Ron's favorite word?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does William go about finding his own proof for the Patrician's innocent in pages 163-197?

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

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

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

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