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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 group of professionals who traditionally control all printing in Ankh-Morpork raise their rates three times in a year?
(a) The Guild of Printers.
(b) The Guild of Engravers.
(c) The Guild of Etchers.
(d) The Guild of Carvers.

2. Who is for seven years the President of the Guild of Shoemakers and Leathermakers and favored to succeed the dishonored Patrician?
(a) Harry King.
(b) Tuttle Scrope.
(c) Igor.
(d) Mr. Wintler.

3. The Guild blocks the engraving of iconographs, but Otto believes that he can teach the imps to ________.
(a) Carve stone.
(b) Draw in the dirt.
(c) Etch plates.
(d) Use typewriters.

4. What refers to the patient, hardworking, logical, and indestructible people who protect Ankh-Morpork from the ever-present threat of fire?
(a) Golem Volunteer Fire Brigade.
(b) Ankh Volunteer Fire Brigade.
(c) Imp Volunteer Fire Brigade.
(d) Morpork Volunteer Fire Brigade.

5. What pledge did Otto take to never again drink human blood or the b-vord as he refers to it?
(a) The Fluid of Life pledge.
(b) The pledge of Self Control.
(c) Uberwald Temperance Movement pledge.
(d) The Red Fluid pledge.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a meeting with William, Vetinari wonders why normal people need ________.

2. What unimaginative member of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch was born above the snow line on a distant mountain and never saw a human until he was five?

3. Who is Ankh-Morpork's most enterprisingly unsuccessful entrepreneur?

4. What member of the Lawyers Guild considers himself a facilitator between Mr. Pin and Mr. Tulip?

5. Whom does William claim he suspects is a werewolf and that he's seen gargoyles spying on him when talking with Vimes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What temptation does Otto face when Sacharissa is injured in pages 98-126? Why?

2. How are Tulip and Pin described in the narrative? What was Pratchett's inspiration for the characters?

3. What reporter does William hire in pages 32-64? How is she described?

4. What happens when William interviews Arthur Crank?

5. How does the discussion between William and the Patrician in pages 64-98 illuminate the theme of truth?

6. Describe the satirical elements in the scene at the Oblong Office in pages 98-126. What is the key evidence?

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

8. How is the theme of racism illustrated through William's hiring Otto Chriek?

9. How is Igor described? What news does William learn from him in pages 98-126?

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

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