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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the head of the Assassins' Guild?
(a) Otto.
(b) Macleduff.
(c) Scrope.
(d) Mr. Downey.

2. Who leads the discussion of how Vetinari cleverly gets away with it but then skips over the far-fetched political stuff to talk about vegetables in the end of the novel?
(a) William.
(b) Sacharissa.
(c) Macleduff.
(d) Otto.

3. When William dictates his news article about conspiracy and Vetinari's innocence, he credits uncovering the plot to whom?
(a) The Inquirer.
(b) Sacharissa.
(c) The City Watch.
(d) The Times.

4. What does Otto startle, causing the universe to fold away in chilling darkness and ice needles after the crowd disperses from the Times office?
(a) An octopus.
(b) Fish.
(c) A dolphin.
(d) Eels.

5. Late in the novel, what drives Mr. Pin to see ghosts of past victims?
(a) A bat.
(b) An obscurograph.
(c) A dream.
(d) A conversation with Tulip.

6. When Trixiebell and Deep Bone accompany William back to the print shed, Pin and Tulip are waiting, holding whom prisoner?
(a) Sacharissa.
(b) Vetinari.
(c) Trixiebelle.
(d) Otto.

7. Who steams her sinuses, lamenting that they cannot arrest William without revealing that she is a werewolf?
(a) Ole Foul Ron.
(b) Lady Hermione.
(c) Deep Bone.
(d) Sgt. Angua.

8. After speaking with William, Dibbler accepts a commission job _________ for the Times.
(a) Writing wedding announcements.
(b) Selling advertising space.
(c) Writing obituaries.
(d) Writing as a reporter.

9. William offers a reward of how much for the Patrician's dog, figuring that he might need to be on the Watch's good side?
(a) $50.
(b) $25.
(c) $75.
(d) $100.

10. After saving the dogs from the river, who wants to give them artificial respiration, but is told it is unhygienic?
(a) Lady Hermione.
(b) Coffin Henry.
(c) Ole Foul Ron.
(d) Deep Bone.

11. Who feeds Sacharissa's news stories, being sweet on her?
(a) Constable Fiddyment.
(b) Constable Featherby.
(c) Constable Fidgety.
(d) Constable Flimwabby.

12. Whom does William's father run through with his sword in the de Worde Estate at the end of the novel?
(a) Wuffles.
(b) Gunilla.
(c) Sacharissa.
(d) Otto.

13. Who is an enormous, pink, and thin-haired man who dresses in shirtsleeves and constantly smokes a huge cigar to protect him from the odors of his profession?
(a) Ole Foul Ron.
(b) Harry King.
(c) Wuffles.
(d) Deep Bone.

14. When was Terry Pratchett born?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1961.

15. Who kicks Pin in the groin to get him off William in a fight in the cellar?
(a) Sacharrisa.
(b) Tulip.
(c) Otto.
(d) Wuffles.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many thugs does William's father summon to take William away in the end of the novel?

2. At the end of the novel, William and Sacharissa go to a noodle place located on what street?

3. Who is the High Priest of Blind Io and unofficial spokesman for Ankh-Morpork's religious establishment?

4. What refers to the directory of all the nobility of Ankh-Morpork and its satellites, describing their lineage and titles?

5. Who steals Pin's potato as Death makes Pin disappear in a flash of blue light?

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