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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are severed children?
(a) Those who have been separated from their daemons.
(b) Those whose daemons have abandoned them.
(c) Those born without a daemon.
(d) Those whose daemons settled too early.

2. Mrs. Coulter thinks she is opening a tin containing the alethiometer, but instead, the spy-fly comes out and attacks
(a) Mrs. Coulter and her daemon.
(b) Lyra and her daemon.
(c) The men in the conference room.
(d) Every daemon it encounters.

3. From her hiding place in the Bolvangar, Lyra hears Mrs. Coulter talk about a new separating machine with a blade made of
(a) Aluminum and cobalt.
(b) Manganese and titanium.
(c) Gold and silver.
(d) Lead and copper.

4. After waking up and finding that Lord Asriel is gone, Lyra and a group of bears take off to
(a) Find her daemon.
(b) Retrieve her alethiometer.
(c) Rescue Iorek.
(d) Rescue Roger.

5. While being held captive by the bears, Lyra consults her alethiometer using light provided by
(a) Her daemon who takes on the form of a firefly.
(b) The small opening high above her.
(c) Small clumps of glowing Dust.
(d) The faint glow of her wristwatch.

6. Lee Scoresby explains to Lyra that to get to Svalbard, one would need a
(a) Hot-air balloon.
(b) Zeppelin.
(c) Snowmobile.
(d) Large boat.

7. As the children escape from the compound, they see
(a) Lee Scoresby dropping sacks of sand on the Tartars.
(b) Lee Scoresby deflating Mrs. Coulter's zeppelin.
(c) The Tartars taking Lyra away.
(d) Mrs. Coulter sending a witch after Lyra.

8. Scoresby tells Serafina that he will not participate in war because
(a) It is against his religious philosophy.
(b) He has been paid for transportation only, not war.
(c) He refuses to take sides.
(d) He is a trader and a teacher, not a soldier.

9. When the daemons escape from the Bolvangar, why is the alarm not heard?
(a) The daemons disengaged it.
(b) It is drowned out by the fire alarm.
(c) It sounds, but nobody recognizes it.
(d) It is set to "Silent Mode."

10. When the alethiometer tells Lyra that there is a ghost in a village near the Bolvangar, she thinks the ghost may be that of a
(a) Guard killed in action.
(b) Missing child.
(c) Scholar.
(d) Gobbler.

11. Lyra meets three girls at the Bolvangar who tell her that when a child is taken, that child
(a) Never returns.
(b) Comes back with two daemons.
(c) Returns with a scar across the abdomen.
(d) Becomes a daemon.

12. After Tony dies, Lyra discovers that his fish had been taken by
(a) A Gyptian to feed his dogs.
(b) A polar bear to feed her cubs.
(c) A Tartar to feed his sick friend.
(d) A child to feed his younger siblings.

13. When Lyra consults her alethiometer to see how the Bolvangar is being defended, she discovers that
(a) The station is surrounded by wire and guarded by Tartars.
(b) The region is separated by an icy moat.
(c) The area is guarded by armored bears.
(d) The entrance is protected by an electric field, and Gobblers patrol the area.

14. Serafina tells Lyra that she is in love with whom?
(a) Iorek Birnbaum.
(b) Farder Coram.
(c) Lee Scoresby.
(d) Lord Asriel.

15. When Lyra and friends sneak off during a fire drill at Bolvangar, what do they find?
(a) Hiding witches.
(b) Invading polar bears.
(c) Hundreds of alethiometers.
(d) Caged daemons.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Lyra is taken to the canteen at the Bolvangar, whom does she see?

2. At the canteen in the Bolvangar, Lyra drops a handkerchief when passing by her friend and manages to convey to him that they

3. As the new king of the bears, what does Iorek Byrnison order regarding human prisoners?

4. After the battle between the two bears is over, Lyra is reunited with

5. When Lyra and Roger meet with Lord Asriel in his elegant home atop a high crag, what does Roger tell Lyra?

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