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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. After consulting her alethiometer while imprisoned by the bears, Lyra learns that someone is coming to rescue her. Who?
(a) Mrs. Coulter.
(b) Serafina.
(c) Lord Asriel.
(d) Iorek.

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

3. Lord Asriel explains to Lyra that the name "Dust" was derived from a passage in the Bible reading
(a) Like the dust of the earth, thou shalt scatter.
(b) The winds shalt scatter the dust and foil their plans.
(c) Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
(d) For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

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

5. At the canteen in the Bolvangar, Lyra drops a handkerchief when passing by her friend and manages to convey to him that they
(a) Must overtake the adults the first chance they get.
(b) Must pretend they do not know each other.
(c) Should not talk to the other children.
(d) Need to talk to Mrs. Coulter immediately.

Short Answer Questions

1. What daemons do the Sibirirsk regiments have?

2. Lyra is able to answer all of the bear king's difficult questions by consulting

3. When Lyra's hood is removed by her kidnappers, who addresses her?

4. When Lyra sees hundreds of tiny black objects up in the sky, Iorek tells her they are

5. Serafina tells Lyra that she is in love with whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Lyra is with Mrs. Coulter at the Bolvangar, she realizes she is safe only as long as she pretends to know very little of what is actually going on. What does Lyra tell Coulter to throw her off track?

2. At the Bolvangar, what do the three girls who wake Lyra up tell her about what goes on there?

3. In what ways is the Bolvangar similar to a school?

4. Lyra is traveling in Scoresby's balloon. When Lyra asks Serafina about the future of Lord Asriel, what does the witch, who is flying next to the balloon, explain?

5. When Lyra consults her alethiometer under the insistence of John Faa to learn more about the Bolvangar, what details does she reveal?

6. As children line up to get hot drinks at the canteen at the Bolvangar, what does Lyra reveal to them about her escape plan?

7. When Lyra and Mrs. Coulter are reunited at the Bolvangar, what does the woman tell the girl about Dust?

8. After Lyra and Roger go to Lord Asriel's residence in the North, what does Roger say to Lyra about the man?

9. What does Serafina say when Lyra asks her if she loved Farder Coram?

10. Describe the prison where Lord Asriel is kept in the North.

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