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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. How is Lyra discovered when she is hiding in the Bolvangar listening to the men in the conference room?
(a) She sneezes.
(b) She falls through the ceiling.
(c) The men's daemons find her.
(d) Her foot slips and makes a noise.

2. By the end of Chapter 20, Lyra has decided to take her alethiometer to
(a) Lord Asriel.
(b) Mrs. Coulter.
(c) Lee Scoresby.
(d) Serafina.

3. When Lyra asks Serafina about the future of Lord Asriel, she tells the girl that Asriel will not return to the college because
(a) The Scholars have forbidden him from returning.
(b) There is a good chance he will not live long enough to return.
(c) There is work to be done in other worlds.
(d) The Scholars have betrayed him.

4. How does Lyra create a distraction at the Bolvangar during a fire drill?
(a) Gets daemons to pretend they are fighting.
(b) Attacks a polar bear guard.
(c) Starts a giant snowball fight.
(d) Releases the guard dogs.

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 pretend they do not know each other.
(b) Should not talk to the other children.
(c) Need to talk to Mrs. Coulter immediately.
(d) Must overtake the adults the first chance they get.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the kidnappers take Lyra to the Bolvangar, who pays them?

2. What does Lyra learn about male witches?

3. In the fight between Iorek and Iofur, Iorek is soon injured where?

4. Mrs. Coulter thinks she is opening a tin containing the alethiometer, but instead, the spy-fly comes out and attacks

5. What daemons do the Sibirirsk regiments have?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

5. When Thorold wakes up Lyra at Lord Asriel's residence in the North, he is concerned. What does he tell her?

6. 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?

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

8. Which characters serve as Lyra's motherly and fatherly figures?

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

10. 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?

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