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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 Mrs. Coulter determine resulted in the escape of the daemons from the Bolvangar?
(a) An outside force.
(b) A witch's spell.
(c) Sleeping guards.
(d) The daemons' cunning.

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

3. Lord Asriel tells Lyra that the Magisterium decided that Dust was the result of what?
(a) Colliding magnetic fields.
(b) An experiment gone haywire.
(c) Original sin.
(d) Sorcery and witchcraft.

4. When Lyra sees hundreds of tiny black objects up in the sky, Iorek tells her they are
(a) Anti-matter particles.
(b) Dust particles.
(c) Gobblers.
(d) Witches.

5. When Lyra meets the bear king, she notices that he has a doll that resembles whom?
(a) Mrs. Coulter.
(b) Serafina.
(c) Ma Costa.
(d) Lyra.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When Lyra and friends sneak off during a fire drill at Bolvangar, what do they find?

4. As the children escape from the compound, they see

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When Lyra is imprisoned by the armored bears, she reads her alethiometer with help from Pan, who transforms himself into a firefly. What information does the alethiometer reveal?

3. Why does Iorek take Lyra to the village near the Bolvangar?

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

5. When Lyra and the Gyptians are attacked by surprise in the North, Lyra is abducted. Who takes her, and where do they go?

6. Describe the battle that interrupts Lyra, Iorek, and the other bears as they chase after the tracks made by Lord Asriel's sledge.

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

8. 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?

9. What is the outcome of the battle between Iorek and Iofur?

10. Summarize what Lyra overhears of the conversation about escaped daemons between Mrs. Coulter and the men in the conference room.

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