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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 does William imply to Vimes that Scrope's business is actually manufacturing?

2. What do Pin and Tulip break into the Temple of Om to steal?

3. In Biers Bar, Pin and a poorly coordinated Tulip retreat from a deadly standoff with which being?

4. Who is the longest-surviving lodger at the Lodging House for Respectable Working Men?

5. Certain that they have drowned Wuffles after the fight at the Times headquarters, Tulip wants to kill whom and run away?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What do Pin and Tulip do with the terriers in pages 163-197? How are the terriers saved?

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

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

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

9. Why do the dwarfs attempt to break into the Inquirer's office in pages 229-260? Who do they find?

10. What happens when Otto takes an iconograph of Pin in pages 163-197?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and analyze William's interaction with Arthur Crank in the narrative. How does William encounter Crank? How does he determine this is "street performance"?

Essay Topic 2

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

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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