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

2. When Iorek and Lyra reach the village near the Bolvangar, they are met by what?
(a) Howling dogs and a man with a rifle.
(b) Honking geese and a child with a book.
(c) Baby seals and a girl with a sled.
(d) Polar bears and a woman with an electron gun.

3. Lyra meets three girls at the Bolvangar who tell her that when a child is taken, that child
(a) Becomes a daemon.
(b) Never returns.
(c) Returns with a scar across the abdomen.
(d) Comes back with two daemons.

4. Lyra is able to answer all of the bear king's difficult questions by consulting
(a) The witches.
(b) The alethiometer.
(c) Her friend Iorek.
(d) Her daemon.

5. When Lyra and friends sneak off during a fire drill at Bolvangar, what do they find?
(a) Hundreds of alethiometers.
(b) Hiding witches.
(c) Invading polar bears.
(d) Caged daemons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Iofur Rakinson?

2. Iorek was exiled from Svalbard for what?

3. At the Bolvangar, Lyra asks about the battle. She is told that it

4. At the Bolvangar, when Mrs. Coulter asks Lyra about the girl's disappearance in London, what story does Lyra fabricate?

5. How do the bears, accompanied by Lyra, fight against their attackers in Chapter 22?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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