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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. What wakes the university librarian and disturbs the whole city?
(a) A high pitched whistle.
(b) Death's arrival.
(c) Leaky pipes.
(d) Something invisible that runs and screams.

2. What do the Tezumen do to the giant statue of their god after their failed sacrifice?
(a) Alter it.
(b) Dismantle it.
(c) Praise it.
(d) Bomb it.

3. Who is the first character introduced in the novel?
(a) Rincewind.
(b) Death.
(c) The Librarian.
(d) The Bursor.

4. How does Eric suggest they get rich in Tsort?
(a) Selling coffee.
(b) Burgling Tsort's treasury.
(c) Selling kabobs.
(d) Betting on horse races.

5. What does Rincewind think is talking to him after waking in a human world?
(a) A table.
(b) A stuffed parrot.
(c) A grimoire.
(d) An assembled skeleton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Eric and Rincewind climb out of in the city of Tsort?

2. What does the parrot claim Eric's grandfather was trying to summon?

3. Who is the king of the demons?

4. Who refuses to bite through the captive's ropes on the Tezuman pyramid?

5. After viewing Eric and Rincewind's arrival in the Tezuman kingdom, who does Astfgl ask to see?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the university library.

2. Describe Rincewind's knack.

3. Describe the duties Amazonian princesses kidnap men for.

4. What does Ponce da Quirm mean when he says the others "found religion?"

5. What event outside the Tsort gates leaves Rincewind and Eric unguarded?

6. What are Eric's concerns about the world when he and Rincewind are viewing the Disc from above?

7. Describe how Eric looks to Rincewind when they first meet.

8. How do the Tezumen priests adjust to the death of their god?

9. How does Eric's wish appear to be coming true in Tezuma?

10. Why is the Council of Wizardry hesitant to try the Rite of AshkEnte?

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