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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 Vetinari invites the Times to a party at the end of the novel, William convinces Vetinari to attend and promote whose daughter's marriage?
(a) Scrope's.
(b) Mr. Downey's.
(c) Harry King's.
(d) Sacharissa's.

2. Late in the novel, what drives Mr. Pin to see ghosts of past victims?
(a) A dream.
(b) A conversation with Tulip.
(c) An obscurograph.
(d) A bat.

3. When William returns from protective custody at the end of the novel, Slant confirms that who has been elected Patrician?
(a) Scrope.
(b) Otto.
(c) William.
(d) Sacharissa.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who leads the discussion of how Vetinari cleverly gets away with it but then skips over the far-fetched political stuff to talk about vegetables in the end of the novel?

2. In Biers Bar, Pin and a poorly coordinated Tulip retreat from a deadly standoff with which being?

3. How many imps are required to work together in order to bring color to the Times?

4. Near the end of the novel, William returns from comfortable, protective custody to find that Slant has beaten whom?

5. What does William imply to Vimes that Scrope's business is actually manufacturing?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. For whom is Tulip searching in pages 163-197? Why?

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

5. How does William go about finding his own proof for the Patrician's innocent in pages 163-197?

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

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

8. What demand does William make of his father in the final section of the book? What is Lord de Worde's response?

9. What is the final outcome for Tulip in The Truth?

10. Where does William find the money to rebuild and prove the conspiracy in pages 260-290?

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