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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 must Lyra leave on the shore in order to go to the world of the dead?

2. Who does Father Gomez talk to in Cittagazze?

3. Who does Mrs. Coulter look like to Will causing him to drop the knife?

4. What does Mary Malone tell the Mulefa that cause them to laugh?

5. What change does Tialys note has happened in the Lady?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Lyra and Will decide about their daemons when they awake.

2. What is the condition and frame of mind of the two Gallivespians as they ride on Lyra and Will's shoulder at the beginning of chapter twenty-nine?

3. What do Will and Lyra decide to do once a year in order to feel that they are still close to each other?

4. What does the angel tell Lord Asriel about the Authority shortly before he dies?

5. What is the response of the Gallivespians when Will and Lyra tell them they are going to the world of the dead?

6. How does Asriel describe the cloud mountain seen in chapter twenty-eight?

7. Describe the feelings that Mary has from being in the tree tops as it is explained in chapter twenty-seven.

8. What does Will tell Lyra when she is worried that she has lost the ability to lie, the only thing she feels she is good at?

9. What does Lee Scorseby and John Parry instruct Will to do in order to save Lyra?

10. What does Will explain is the difference in him having to take care of his mother and someone else taking care of her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the knife. Why was the thought of Will's mother and eventually the thought of Lyra enough to break the knife? When Iorek had said that the knife might have intentions of it's own was he right? Did the knife have a consciousness? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Mrs. Coulter is Lyra's mother but they have a non traditional relationship. Explain the relationship between this mother and daughter pair as it appears in the first of the book. Explain how it is different at the end of the book. What events take place that cause these changes?

Essay Topic 3

Father Gomez didn't want to hurt Will.

1) Explain why he was alright with hurting Lyra but not Will.

2) What did it reveal to the reader about Father Gomez that he had been asking forgiveness for killing Lyra long before he had done it so that he would be absolved of the sin?

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