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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. Which word is missing from this ritual password of the Elucidated Brethren: "The _______ owl hoots in the night."
(a) Suspicious.
(b) Significant.
(c) Saturated.
(d) Spectral.

2. Does Vimes cover up the footprints found in the alley?
(a) Yes - but he leaves one hidden under a sack in a dark corner.
(b) Yes - he makes sure no trace of them is left.
(c) Yes - but he takes an plaster cast of them first.
(d) No - he believes they should be left as evidence.

3. What does the Patrician keep as a pet?
(a) A unicorn.
(b) A small dog.
(c) A swamp dragon.
(d) A horse.

4. How does Vimes drunkenly pronounce "tremble in their boots"?
(a) Bootle in their trems.
(b) Tumble in their brooms.
(c) Bemble in their troops.
(d) Bremble in their toots.

5. According to Lady Sybil, how much should the big dragon weigh?
(a) Nine tons.
(b) Seventy tons.
(c) Twenty tons.
(d) One hundred tons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What should you never call the Librarian?

2. Where does Vimes see the dragon perching?

3. How many copies of The Summoning of Dragons exist?

4. Where does Lady Ramkin live?

5. Where does the Watch headquarters move to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What frustrates the Supreme Grand Master about the magical artifacts brought by the Elucidated Brethren?

2. Why do the watchmen not arrest anyone after the fight in the tavern?

3. What is unusual about Lady Sybil's hair?

4. Why are the watchmen alarmed when they realize that they are in Sweetheart Lane?

5. Why has Vetinari allowed Vimes to remain in charge of the Night Watch?

6. Why do the Elucidated Brethren want to summon a dragon?

7. What is noticeable about the magical artifacts brought by the Elucidated Brethren for the second summoning of the dragon?

8. What does Carrot not realize about the Mrs Palm's "boarding house"?

9. How does the Thieves' Guild reduce or control crime?

10. What incident begins to wake up the more idealistic side of Sam Vimes?

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