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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 pink, talking poodle does Williams follow from the bridge to the stinking hideaway beneath when looking for Wuffles?
2. Gunilla reveals to William that the dwarfs are ready to sell out and return to where?
3. At his interview with Wuffles, William wants an iconograph to prove that he has talked with Wuffles to be taken back at the Times, for how much money?
4. What is the name of Ankh-Morpork's fire department?
5. At the noodle place where William and Sacharissa go at the end of the novel, a brewer's dray runs out of control, dumping how much beer?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does William feel about his father's bigotry? How is this illustrated in pages 163-197?
2. What religious allusion is in Pin and Tulip's disguises in pages 163-197?
3. Why do the dwarfs attempt to break into the Inquirer's office in pages 229-260? Who do they find?
4. Why does a crowd form at the Times in pages 197-229? What does Sacharissa make of it?
5. What do Pin and Tulip do with the terriers in pages 163-197? How are the terriers saved?
6. What symbolic argument takes place between William and Vimes in pages 163-197?
7. What demand does William make of his father in the final section of the book? What is Lord de Worde's response?
8. What excuse of Lord de Worde's does William refuse to accept in the final section of the book?
9. How does William's sense of the truth affect him as a newspaper writer?
10. What event shows William and Sacharissa's dedication to the news at the end of the novel?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe William de Worde as the novel's protagonist and analyze the characteristics of William. How old is he? What is his family like?
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast the characters of William de Worde and Lord Havelock Vetinari. What differences are there in age, stature, power, etc.? What similarities can be seen in the characteristics of each?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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