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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Foul Ole Ron's favorite word?
2. After speaking with William, Dibbler accepts a commission job _________ for the Times.
3. 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?
4. How many thugs does William's father summon to take William away in the end of the novel?
5. Who steams her sinuses, lamenting that they cannot arrest William without revealing that she is a werewolf?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the Committee to Unelect the Patrician think of the Times in pages 163-197?
2. What do Sacharissa and Rocky go to the de Worde townhouse for in pages 229-260? What do they discover?
3. What do Pin and Tulip do with the terriers in pages 163-197? How are the terriers saved?
4. What symbolic imagery is depicted in the destruction of the shed in pages 260-290? How is Death described?
5. How does William go about finding his own proof for the Patrician's innocent in pages 163-197?
6. What religious allusion is in Pin and Tulip's disguises in pages 163-197?
7. What demand does William make of his father in the final section of the book? What is Lord de Worde's response?
8. How does William feel about his father's bigotry? How is this illustrated in pages 163-197?
9. For whom is Tulip searching in pages 163-197? Why?
10. What changes in William once he discovers his father's involvement in the plot?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the character of Sacharissa Cripslock. Who is Sacharissa's grandfather? What relationship did she have with the protagonist before this point?
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast the characters of William de Worde and Lord Havelock Vetinari. What differences are there in age, stature, power, etc.? What similarities can be seen in the characteristics of each?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the character of Wuffles and the role of animals in the narrative. Why is Wuffles a threat to Pin and Tulip? What animals can speak in the novel?
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