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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 decides to commission a play?
(a) Felmet.
(b) Lady Felmet.
(c) The Fool.
(d) Granny.

2. Who dislikes the idea of going to a dwarf bar?
(a) Tomjohn.
(b) The Fool.
(c) Hwel.
(d) Vitroller.

3. Who is convinced that strong men, rather than mere words, change the world?
(a) Magrat.
(b) Granny.
(c) Lady Felmet.
(d) The Fool.

4. Where do many people of destiny go, according to Granny?
(a) Lancre.
(b) Disc World.
(c) Ankh-Morpork.
(d) To the theater.

5. Who is the "woman in the funny hat" that gives Tomjohn's troupe directions when they get lost?
(a) Granny.
(b) Goodie.
(c) Nanny.
(d) Magrat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Magrat all about the play?

2. Why can't Granny and Nanny hear what Tomjohn is saying as he prepares for his trip to the Ramtops?

3. Who ends up acting as a guide for Tomjohn and his troupe?

4. Who reports that Tomjohn and his companions have come to put on a play?

5. Who has a nightmare about being trapped in a bowl?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Granny react when she learns that Tomjon is returning to the Ramtops to perform a play?

2. What convinces Hwel to accept the offer brought to him by the Fool?

3. Who speaks up when Felmet orders the witches arrested again? What claim upsets Felmet after he orders them arrested?

4. Discuss the prop that Tomjon lacks in the Lancre play. What does he use for the prop, and what is ironic about it?

5. What bit of foreshadowing is pointed out by Hwel after he and Tomjon witness a mugging?

6. Explain how Magrat becomes a witch.

7. How does Granny plan to intervene with the government?

8. Why does Tomjon refuse the kingship?

9. How does Tomjon diffuse the argument in the dwarf bar?

10. How does the Fool realize that he has located whom the king sent him to find?

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