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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. How much do Slant and Ronald Carney of the newly combined Guild of Engravers and Printers demand for a one-time shakedown fee from William?
(a) $3,500.
(b) $7,500.
(c) $2,000.
(d) $5,000.

2. On what street are the Ankh-Morpork Inquirer headquarters located?
(a) Grape Street.
(b) Glory Street.
(c) Gleam Street.
(d) Gloom Street.

3. What is Otto Chriek's position for the Ankh-Morpork Times?
(a) Iconographer.
(b) Reporter.
(c) Editor.
(d) Delivery person.

4. Whom does William claim he suspects is a werewolf and that he's seen gargoyles spying on him when talking with Vimes?
(a) Nobbs.
(b) Detritus.
(c) Colon.
(d) Angua.

5. Whom does William see crawling in the shadows at the Watch headquarters when he is meeting with Vimes?
(a) Sgt. Detritus.
(b) Sgt. Colon.
(c) Sgt. Angua.
(d) Cpl. Nobbs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Ankh-Morpork police force?

2. Where did the Patrician's dog bite both Pin and Tulip?

3. According to William, letters prove that people want to believe _________.

4. 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?

5. The author writes in the beginning of the novel that William has always been troubled by the nature of _________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What shortcoming do the editors find a solution in with Otto Chriek?

2. What does William discover about the City Watch when he goes to investigate the murder at the Palace?

3. What is revealed about the City Watch and Commander Vimes in pages 32-64?

4. How is William's relationship with his father described in the novel? How does William's education relate to his occupation?

5. Why does William go to the engravers in the beginning of the novel? How is the engraver's office described?

6. What are Pin and Tulip doing in the opening of The Truth? Whom do they pass?

7. What elements of foreshadowing can be found in pages 98-126? What objects are highlighted in this section?

8. How and why is a plot developed against the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork?

9. What happens when William interviews Arthur Crank?

10. What does the rumor of the Patrician murdering his secretary turn out to be?

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