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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. Malcolm sees a ring that he associates with which character in Chapter 16?
2. In what phase is the moon at the start of Chapter 19?
3. When George arrives to help Malcolm, Alice, and Lyra, to what kind of structure does he take them?
4. What gesture does the man with the hyena daemon make toward Malcolm late in Chapter 11?
5. Alice and Lyra make it back to the canoe, while Malcolm stops to grab what object of Gerard's?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe how Pullman uses a simile within Chapters 16-20 and for what purpose.
2. In what way does the motif of violence enter the narrative within Chapter 12?
3. In what way is Asta, Malcolm's daemon, shown to have a mind of her own, separate from Malcolm's?
4. In what way is the theme of appearance versus reality depicted within Chapters 16-20?
5. Who shows up at the priory, falsely claiming to be Lyra's father?
6. What object does Hannah see outside her home to cause her panic?
7. Discuss an example when Malcolm demonstrates a capacity for deception.
8. Give one example of a literary device Pullman uses within Chapters 11 through 15.
9. What action does Malcolm take in his response to Andrew angering him in Chapter 20?
10. About what coming catastrophe does Coram warn Malcolm?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a critical essay about Philip Pullman's novel Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage while using the critical power theory lens of feminist theory. Use textual evidence to back up your strong, specific claim regarding the novel's treatment of gender roles, the objectification of women, female empowerment, misogyny's role within society, or any other issues related to feminist theory that can be found in the novel.
Essay Topic 2
Write a critical essay about Philip Pullman's novel Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage while using the critical power theory lens of Marxist theory. Use textual evidence to back up your strong, specific claim regarding the novel's treatment of issues such as socioeconomic status, hierarchies, wealth, class, and any other issues related to Marxist theory that can be found in the novel.
Essay Topic 3
Sensory details are used frequently by Pullman in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used by the author serve the author’s creation of vivid characters.
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