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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. What does Lyra check on to make sure it isn't broken after she is struck by the car?
(a) Her ipod
(b) Her daemon
(c) Her leg
(d) Alethiometer

2. What does Charles hand Lyra when she turns to leave after looking at the trepanned skulls?
(a) A kitten
(b) A book about trepanned skulls
(c) His name and address
(d) A piece of gum

3. What does Will ask Mrs. Cooper to do for him?
(a) Come clean his house
(b) Watch his mother
(c) Fix him some soup
(d) Hide him

4. What does Queen Ruta Skadi say that she is going to go do when the witch council is ended?
(a) Take a nap
(b) Go to her clan and prepare for war
(c) Find Asriel
(d) Hunt down the Magistrate

5. How does Will know Mrs. Cooper?
(a) She used to babysit Wil
(b) She used to sell him fresh fruit
(c) She was his piano teacher
(d) She had been a friend of his mother's

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lyra see on top of the tower after the children have fled in Cittagazze?

2. What does Will stop and buy?

3. What does Lee find out Stanislaus Grumman had done as part of his initiation into the Tartar clan?

4. What do the men ask Will's mother about when they come to see her?

5. What does Lyra tell Will she has come looking for?

Short Essay Questions

1. In chapter four, what does Lyra suddenly begin considering after she sees the initials SP carved into a stone on the corner of Catte Street?

2. Describe the scene in chapter eight when Lyra watches Tullio run out of the building?

3. Describe the argument that Lyra and Will have at the beginning of chapter five after Lyra asks the police for directions to the museum.

4. Why is Will angry when Lyra begins reading the alethiometer about his life and his father?

5. What is Dr. Malone's assessment of Sir Charles and his offer in chapter twelve?

6. In the second chapter what does Fra Pavel exaplain about Lyra and the alethiometer?

7. What does Will find odd about Lyra and Pantalaimon?

8. What is wrong with Will when he first wakes up in chapter eleven?

9. What does Lyra apologize to Will for in chapter seven when she returns from her narrow escape with the pale man posing as a police officer?

10. What does Sir Charles explain he would like to do with one of the two bodyguards that Mrs. Coulter carries?

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