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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the directory of all the nobility of Ankh-Morpork and its satellites, describing their lineage and titles?

2. What machine of Otto's is smashed during the fight between Pin, Tulip, and the dwarfs outside the Times office?

3. Who steams her sinuses, lamenting that they cannot arrest William without revealing that she is a werewolf?

4. Who is the Archchancellor of Unseen University?

5. What does Otto startle, causing the universe to fold away in chilling darkness and ice needles after the crowd disperses from the Times office?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What event shows William and Sacharissa's dedication to the news at the end of the novel?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the character of Harry King and his occupation. What is Pratchett saying about the nature of recycling through Harry's character?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the satire around the character of Igor in the novel. What is this a literary allusion to? How does Igor help William in the reading?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the character of Otto Chriek in the narrative. Upon what literary creature is Crank based? What is satire? How does satire apply to Otto?

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