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

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

3. At the Bolvangar, Lyra asks about the battle. She is told that it
(a) Is a silly thing grownups like to engage in.
(b) Is none of her concern.
(c) Was just a bad nightmare she had.
(d) Already ended, and the Gyptians won.

4. Serafina tells Lyra that the Oblation Board is funded by the
(a) Foundation.
(b) Church.
(c) Tartars.
(d) Gobblers.

5. 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) Missing child.
(b) Scholar.
(c) Guard killed in action.
(d) Gobbler.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Lyra learn about the ages of witches?

3. Lord Asriel tells Lyra that the Magisterium decided that Dust was the result of what?

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

5. When the children escape the compound, how do they attack the Tartar guards?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens after Lyra learns that Tony Makarios, the daemonless child she retrieves, is dead?

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

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

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

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

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

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