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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is Discworld's premier school of wizardry?
(a) The College of the Unseen.
(b) Unseen University.
(c) The Invisible College.
(d) Invisible University.
2. Who is the proprietress of a Lodging House for Respectable Working Men?
(a) Gunilla Goodmountain.
(b) Ronnie Carney.
(c) Boddony.
(d) Mrs. Eucrasia Arcanum.
3. What refers to the patient, hardworking, logical, and indestructible people who protect Ankh-Morpork from the ever-present threat of fire?
(a) Imp Volunteer Fire Brigade.
(b) Morpork Volunteer Fire Brigade.
(c) Golem Volunteer Fire Brigade.
(d) Ankh Volunteer Fire Brigade.
4. Which member of the Misbegot Bridge Crew is well-spoken, educated, and sane, but consistently (and wrongly) insists that he has no duck on his head?
(a) Mallard Man.
(b) Duck Man.
(c) Bird Boy.
(d) Wing Man.
5. The Guild blocks the engraving of iconographs, but Otto believes that he can teach the imps to ________.
(a) Etch plates.
(b) Carve stone.
(c) Draw in the dirt.
(d) Use typewriters.
6. The official story of what happened to the Patrician is that he __________.
(a) Fell off a horse.
(b) Fell down the stairs.
(c) Got hit with a club.
(d) Got ran over by a cart.
7. How many dwarfs have migrated to Ankh-Morpork in the beginning of the novel?
(a) 145,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 17,000.
(d) 35,000.
8. Sacharissa's first story for William's paper is about what competition?
(a) The Swanson Sweet Potato Bakeoff.
(b) The Dolly Sisters Baking and Flower Circle Annual Competition.
(c) The Mystery Meat Pizza Soiree.
(d) The Dolly Sisters Sweet Potato Caserole Competition.
9. When talking with Vimes at the Watch headquarters, William suggests that the peppermint at the crime scene may have been used to thwart what creature?
(a) A troll.
(b) A werewolf.
(c) A vampire.
(d) A witch.
10. Who is the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork?
(a) Sgt. Angua.
(b) William de Worde.
(c) Boddony.
(d) Lord Havelock Vetinari.
11. Who is the first woman to join the Ankh-Morpork City Watch?
(a) Sgt. Angela von Überwald.
(b) Sgt. Angua von Überwald.
(c) Sgt. Aurora von Überwald.
(d) Sgt. Amelia von Überwald.
12. What character intent on suicide does the protagonist interview on a fourth-floor parapet?
(a) Arthur Crank.
(b) Ronnie Carney.
(c) Boddony.
(d) Sgt. Detritus.
13. The author writes that one can cross the city of Ankh-Morpork underground with ___________.
(a) A shovel.
(b) A system of tunnels.
(c) A boat.
(d) A pickaxe.
14. What does Vetinari claim most normal people crave instead of actual news?
(a) "Stories."
(b) "Accounts."
(c) "Tales."
(d) "Olds."
15. What clothes seller in Pseudopolis is a look-alike for the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork?
(a) Boddony.
(b) Charlie.
(c) Lord Havelock Vetinari.
(d) Sgt. Angua.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which member of the Misbegot Bridge Crew uses the loss of both legs to full advantage in bar fights?
2. In the beginning of the novel, the dwarfs print 100 copies of William's newspaper and price each at ______.
3. What group of professionals who traditionally control all printing in Ankh-Morpork raise their rates three times in a year?
4. William adds a lost-and-found feature and hires a zombie named _________ to write obituaries.
5. The author writes in the beginning of the novel that William has always been troubled by the nature of _________.
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