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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. Whom does William grab across the table while demanding to know what everyone knows?
(a) Lord de Worde.
(b) Sacharissa.
(c) Macleduff.
(d) Windling.

2. What is the name of Ankh-Morpork's fire department?
(a) City Watch Fire Brigade.
(b) Golem-Morpork Fire Squad.
(c) Ankh-Morpork Fire Squad.
(d) Golem Volunteer Fire Brigade.

3. Certain that they have drowned Wuffles after the fight at the Times headquarters, Tulip wants to kill whom and run away?
(a) Pete.
(b) Pin.
(c) William.
(d) Charlie.

4. In Greek mythology, who was the king punished by being compelled to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down?
(a) Theseus.
(b) Erechtheus.
(c) Apheidas.
(d) Sisyphus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who attacks the thugs summoned by William's father to take him away?

2. When William returns from protective custody at the end of the novel, Slant confirms that who has been elected Patrician?

3. Where does Gaspode dive when he comes to the bridge and sees all the other dogs?

4. Biers Bar caters to whom?

5. Standing in the circle of chairs, Slant reports the missing dog but discounts its importance to whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Otto resist doing to Lord de Worde in the end of the novel?

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

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

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

5. What leads Pin to murder Tulip in pages 260-290?

6. What symbolic argument takes place between William and Vimes in pages 163-197?

7. What do Pin and Tulip do with the terriers in pages 163-197? How are the terriers saved?

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

9. Whom does William hire as his lawyer in the end of the novel? Why?

10. What does the addition of color do to production of the Times?

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