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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. Standing in the circle of chairs, Slant reports the missing dog but discounts its importance to whom?

2. What explodes, leading to the destruction of William's print shed?

3. Biers Bar caters to whom?

4. Gunilla reveals to William that the dwarfs are ready to sell out and return to where?

5. What character is a psychotic taken over by eight personalities who switch dominance at five-minute intervals?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What leads to William's publishing a half-truth in pages 260-290? Who follows William when he goes to the de Worde estate?

4. What leads up to the climax of The Truth in pages 260-290?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the author Sir Terry Pratchett. For what genres is Pratchett most well-known? How many Discworld novels has Pratchett written?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the characters of Pin and Tulip in the narrative. What was Pratchett's inspiration for these criminals? What literary or pop culture allusions are made?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the character of Sacharissa Cripslock. Who is Sacharissa's grandfather? What relationship did she have with the protagonist before this point?

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