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The Golden Compass Quiz

Philip Pullman
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The Golden Compass Quiz

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1)

What does Lyra call her daemon affectionately? (from Part 1, Chapter 6)

Tumi.
Palt.
Tout.
Pan.
2)

As Lyra and the bears hurry along on their mission, they are stopped first by witches and then by (from Part 3, Chapter 22)

Lord Asriel and his powerful army.
Mrs. Coulter's zeppelin firing upon them.
Tartar soldiers and their warrior daemons.
Gyptian fighters who try to take Lyra back.
3)

To conceal Lyra from the daemons of the police who are searching for her, the Costas hide her in their boat in a secret compartment made of what? (from Part 1, Chapter 7)

Cedarwood.
Stainless steel.
Cast iron.
Cherry wood.
4)

While riding with the Costas in a narrow boat along the Grand Junction Canal, Lyra learns from Tony that (from Part 1, Chapter 6)

He feared she was dead.
Mrs. Coulter has every agency looking for her.
Lord Asriel has come to London.
Kidnapped children never come back.
5)

Lyra learns from Gyptian leaders that in order to use her alethiometer, she needs to do what? (from Part 1, Chapter 7)

Ask Lord Asriel, the only person who knows how to use it.
Point it in the right direction, and then turn it upside down.
Properly line up three arrows and ask a question.
Steal the instructions from Mrs. Coulter.
6)

Farder explains that one thing that makes witches unique is their (from Part 2, Chapter 10)

Knack for shifting shapes.
Ability to separate from daemons.
Ability to survive sword wounds.
Knack for making Dust disappear.
7)

After waking up and finding that Lord Asriel is gone, Lyra and a group of bears take off to (from Part 3, Chapter 22)

Find her daemon.
Rescue Iorek.
Retrieve her alethiometer.
Rescue Roger.
8)

Upon finding Lord Asriel and Roger, Lyra sees that Roger's daemon is what? (from Part 3, Chapter 23)

Lying unconscious in the snow.
Changing forms in an attempt to escape.
Being held by Asriel's daemon.
Turning into a polar bear.
9)

When Lyra is hiding with the Gyptians and uses the alethiometer in an attempt to see what Mrs. Coulter is doing, one of the symbols the needle stops at is the (from Part 1, Chapter 9)

Ostrich.
Cheetah.
Zebra.
Elephant.
10)

Ma Costa tells Lyra that the Gyptians are water people but the girl is what type of person? (from Part 1, Chapter 7)

Wood.
Air.
Fire.
Earth.
11)

How is Lyra discovered when she is hiding in the Bolvangar listening to the men in the conference room? (from Part 2, Chapter 16)

The men's daemons find her.
She sneezes.
She falls through the ceiling.
Her foot slips and makes a noise.
12)

Kaisa is whose daemon? (from Part 2, Chapter 11)

Serafina Pekkala's.
Ma Costa's.
John Faa's.
Lee Scoresby's.
13)

Lyra believes her parents died in an airship accident, but what do Faa and Coram reveal to her about her father? (from Part 1, Chapter 7)

He is the Master.
He is Lord Asriel.
He is hiding in South America.
He lives in India.
14)

Lyra is able to answer all of the bear king's difficult questions by consulting (from Part 3, Chapter 19)

The alethiometer.
Her friend Iorek.
The witches.
Her daemon.
15)

What are Nalkainens? (from Part 1, Chapter 6)

A race of sea lions.
Abominable snowmen.
Guardians of the North.
Headless ghosts.
16)

How does Lyra create a distraction at the Bolvangar during a fire drill? (from Part 2, Chapter 15)

Starts a giant snowball fight.
Releases the guard dogs.
Attacks a polar bear guard.
Gets daemons to pretend they are fighting.
17)

When Lyra meets the bear king, she notices that he has a doll that resembles whom? (from Part 3, Chapter 19)

Mrs. Coulter.
Ma Costa.
Lyra.
Serafina.
18)

Who is Iofur Rakinson? (from Part 2, Chapter 13)

Leader of the Tartars.
Mentor of John Faa.
King of the bears.
Servant of Lord Asriel.
19)

While they are talking at Lord Asriel's home in the North, Asriel tells Lyra that Dust is (from Part 3, Chapter 21)

The reason for his breakup with Mrs. Coulter.
What makes the alethiometer work.
Sacred and should not be tampered with.
What gives witches their long lives.
20)

As Lyra searches for Lord Asriel and Roger, her daemon helps by turning into what? (from Part 3, Chapter 23)

Mosquito.
Owl.
Bat.
Albatross.
21)

Jacob Huismans informs Lyra and Farder that the missing children have been taken where? (from Part 1, Chapter 9)

Keflavik.
Siberia.
Lithuania.
Lapland.
22)

Lyra meets three girls at the Bolvangar who tell her that when a child is taken, that child (from Part 2, Chapter 14)

Never returns.
Becomes a daemon.
Returns with a scar across the abdomen.
Comes back with two daemons.
23)

How does Lyra pinpoint the location of the bear's armor? (from Part 2, Chapter 11)

The Gyptians tell her.
Through the seer's vision.
With the alethiometer.
Her daemon tells her.
24)

When Lyra and friends sneak off during a fire drill at Bolvangar, what do they find? (from Part 2, Chapter 15)

Invading polar bears.
Hiding witches.
Caged daemons.
Hundreds of alethiometers.
25)

When Lyra is taken to a narrow boat captained by Ma Costa, the girl (from Part 1, Chapter 6)

Falls asleep.
Screams loudly.
Falls overboard.
Whistles loudly.
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