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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 Ipslore make of metal?

2. What carries Discworld?

3. What does the sourcerer request when he gets to the feast?

4. What does Coin decide to do with the University?

5. What does Carding tell the Patrician when he is transported to the Great Hall?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Magnificent Hat claim about its own virtues?

2. What does the Magnificent Hat tell Rincewind and Conina that they must do?

3. How do the townspeople react when the wizards enter the streets and announce they are now ruling the city?

4. What does Coin first create when he challenges Billias?

5. How does the Magnificent Hat convince Conina and Rincewind to get on the boat and go far from the Unseen University?

6. How do Carding and Spelter feel about Coin after seeing his first feats?

7. What occurs between Carding and the Patrician?

8. What does Conina tell Rincewind about her father and herself?

9. What kind of books does the Librarian watch over and what kind of a Librarian is he?

10. What does Rincewind tell Conina about what he would like to see his future hold?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the Librarian the stability and soundness of thought throughout the entire novel? What is his goal? Why does he remain an ape and not a man?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the relationship between Coin and his father and explain its effects on the plot of the story.

Essay Topic 3

How does the novel come full circle in the end? Where are all of the characters, and what has become of them? Does the reader appreciate the full circle?

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