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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. When Slant tries to sneak a few fake diamonds into his payment to Pin and Tulip, what does Pin pull on him?
(a) A double blade.
(b) An imp.
(c) An illegal spring-gonne.
(d) A spring blade.

2. At his interview with Wuffles, William wants an iconograph to prove that he has talked with Wuffles to be taken back at the Times, for how much money?
(a) $40.
(b) $50.
(c) $80.
(d) $100.

3. Gunilla reveals to William that the dwarfs are ready to sell out and return to where?
(a) The mountains.
(b) The forest.
(c) Their homes.
(d) The lead mines.

4. In Biers Bar, Pin and a poorly coordinated Tulip retreat from a deadly standoff with which being?
(a) A troll.
(b) A drunkard.
(c) A vampire.
(d) A half-werewolf.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who sells Pin and Tulip a Times when they leave Biers Bar?

3. What is Foul Ole Ron's favorite word?

4. Who is the head of the Assassins' Guild?

5. Certain that they have drowned Wuffles after the fight at the Times headquarters, Tulip wants to kill whom and run away?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who leads William to Wuffles in pages 229-260?

2. What do Sacharissa and Rocky go to the de Worde townhouse for in pages 229-260? What do they discover?

3. What leads up to the climax of The Truth in pages 260-290?

4. How does William feel about his father's bigotry? How is this illustrated in pages 163-197?

5. What symbolic imagery is depicted in the destruction of the shed in pages 260-290? How is Death described?

6. What religious allusion is in Pin and Tulip's disguises in pages 163-197?

7. What theological discussion do Pin and Tulip share in pages 229-260?

8. Why does a crowd form at the Times in pages 197-229? What does Sacharissa make of it?

9. How do Pin and Tulip disguise themselves in pages 163-197? Why?

10. What does the Committee to Unelect the Patrician think of the Times in pages 163-197?

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