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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 is ailing the Librarian?
(a) Whenever he sneezes, he morphs into a new shape.
(b) Whenever he sleeps, he walks.
(c) Whenver he eats, he aches.
(d) Whenever he coughs, he vanishes.

2. What has Rincewind's arrival done?
(a) Fixed the inconsistency.
(b) Upset the native population.
(c) Accelerated the destruction.
(d) Altered the past.

3. What has turned dangerous while deprived of the Librarian?
(a) The plates.
(b) The students.
(c) The books.
(d) Stacks of writing paper.

4. How was Rincewind sent there?
(a) By boat.
(b) By magic.
(c) By train.
(d) By turtle.

5. What do the wizards not take seriously?
(a) The caution they should take with some foods.
(b) The degree of trouble they may be in.
(c) Stibbons' advice that they leave immediately.
(d) Stibbons' advice against doing anything to change history.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Rincewind he is being called to a quest?

2. What is Stibbons currently studying?

3. Who offers Rincewind food?

4. Who alone possesses the spirit of scientific examination?

5. What does the Librarian wonder?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the story of the Last Continent deal with?

2. What does Rincewind discover about the walls and rocks?

3. What does Stibbons observe on Mono Island, and what conclusions does he draw from this observation?

4. What does the Librarian wonder about?

5. How do the wizards become stranded on Mono Island?

6. Who does Rincewind meet after he naps, and what does he ask Rincewind to do?

7. Why are the magicians and the teachers of magic so determined to retrieve Rincewind the Wizzard from Fourecks?

8. What does Scrappy tell Rincewind about the continent they are on?

9. What does Mad tell Rincewind?

10. What are the characteristics of most of the magicians and teachers of magic at the Unseen University, and who is the exception?

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