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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 Kaisa tell Lyra about Lord Asriel and Dust?
(a) He is the one who actually discovered Dust.
(b) He wants to sell Dust to the Gobblers for profit.
(c) He does not yet know the real nature of Dust.
(d) He is trying to use Dust to find a bridge between dimensions.

2. When Lyra enters the forbidden Retiring Room, what form does her daemon take?
(a) Moth.
(b) Snake.
(c) Spider.
(d) Bat.

3. Who is Thorold?
(a) Lord Asriel's manservant.
(b) The Master's manservant.
(c) The Master's mentor.
(d) Lord Asriel's mentor.

4. Kaisa is whose daemon?
(a) Serafina Pekkala's.
(b) Lee Scoresby's.
(c) John Faa's.
(d) Ma Costa's.

5. Tony Makarios, one of the children who has disappeared, had to
(a) Steal food to eat.
(b) Help hide the Gyptians.
(c) Work as a spy for the Scholars.
(d) Run errands for money.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Lord Asriel tells Lyra that he has received funding for his next expedition, she asks to go with him. What does he say?

2. What does the lord of the western Gyptians forbid his people from doing?

3. In the opening chapter, when Lord Asriel enters the Retiring Room, he sends the Butler out to get what?

4. Ma Costa tells Lyra that the Gyptians are water people but the girl is what type of person?

5. While riding on the zeppelin with Mrs. Coulter, Lyra feels what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize the story Farder Coram tells about his encounter 40 years ago with a Lapland witch.

2. Describe the games Lyra plays with her friend Roger.

3. What happens to the men who try to abduct Lyra after she and Pan run away from Mrs. Coulter? What happens to their daemons?

4. Describe Lyra's and Lord Asriel's daemons.

5. Lord Asriel is describing to a group of Scholars the expedition he just took to the North. What were the goals of that expedition?

6. How does Lyra feel after learning that Mrs. Coulter is her mother?

7. Lyra feels at home with the Gyptians and begins talking like them, but Ma tells her she is not Gyptian. Summarize the dialogue Lyra and Ma have on this matter.

8. In her hiding place in the Retiring Room, Lyra eventually falls asleep. What does Lord Asriel talk about with Lyra after he wakes her up?

9. Describe some of the objects Lyra is shown at the library of the Royal Arctic Institute.

10. What is the Retiring Room?

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