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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. Lee Scoresby explains to Lyra that to get to Svalbard, one would need a
(a) Large boat.
(b) Snowmobile.
(c) Zeppelin.
(d) Hot-air balloon.

2. What are severed children?
(a) Those whose daemons settled too early.
(b) Those born without a daemon.
(c) Those who have been separated from their daemons.
(d) Those whose daemons have abandoned them.

3. When Lyra is taken to the canteen at the Bolvangar, whom does she see?
(a) Tony.
(b) Faa.
(c) Roger.
(d) Lee.

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

5. As the new king of the bears, what does Iorek Byrnison order regarding human prisoners?
(a) Their release.
(b) Their execution.
(c) That they be given fair trials.
(d) That they be banished.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Lyra learn about male witches?

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

4. When Lyra tries giving her alethiometer to Lord Asriel, he

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. Right before the battle between Iorek and Iofur, Lyra asks to meet and speak with Iorek. Why does she do this?

7. While Lyra is imprisoned in the armored bears' palace, what does she learn about the king bear from a fellow prisoner?

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

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

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

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