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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 Ankh-Morpork's second newspaper?
(a) Ankh-Morpork Inquirer.
(b) The Ankh Reporter.
(c) The Morprk Reporter.
(d) The Morprk Gazette.

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

3. Who is the proprietress of a Lodging House for Respectable Working Men?
(a) Mrs. Eucrasia Arcanum.
(b) Ronnie Carney.
(c) Gunilla Goodmountain.
(d) Boddony.

4. Who is the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork?
(a) William de Worde.
(b) Lord Havelock Vetinari.
(c) Sgt. Angua.
(d) Boddony.

5. How many dwarfs have migrated to Ankh-Morpork in the beginning of the novel?
(a) 17,000.
(b) 35,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 145,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What citizen of Ankh-Morpork regularly brings to the office of the Ankh-Morpork Times oddly-shaped vegetables that he has grown?

2. What character intent on suicide does the protagonist interview on a fourth-floor parapet?

3. Rumors arise in the beginning of the novel that dwarfs are able to turn __________into gold.

4. Whom does William see crawling in the shadows at the Watch headquarters when he is meeting with Vimes?

5. William and Sacharissa are interrupted in the beginning of the novel by a short and red-faced man who presents which possible story idea?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens to the thief who accosts Pin and Tulip in pages 98-126? What "prize" does Tulip gain?

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

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

6. What obstructions does the Guild of Engravers pose for the Times in pages 98-126?

7. Describe the narrative style of The Truth. What stylistic elements depart from traditional format?

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

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

10. How do the Patrician and William meet? How do they differ on the value of letters?

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