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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lyra find out when she uses the alethiometer to ask about the broken knife?
(a) There is another knife
(b) The Ghasts have the ability to fix it
(c) The angels can fix it
(d) Iorek can fix it

2. Why does Lyra not want to tell the Gallivespians where they are going?
(a) She thinks the Gallivespians are hiding something
(b) They have talked of the curse of the land of the dead
(c) She thinks they will tell Lord Asriel
(d) She wnats to have an advantage over them

3. What does Iorek tell Will will be just as important during the forging of the knife as what Iorek will do?
(a) What the knife wants
(b) What Will thinks
(c) What Will is holding
(d) What shape the knife becomes

4. What does Will ask the angel, Bathalmos, to do before they go into Lyra's world?
(a) See if he can sense Lyra
(b) Tell his father he loves him
(c) Mark their way back to this world
(d) Pose as Will's daemon animal

5. What does Mrs. Coulter tell Ama has happened to her daughter?
(a) She has been put under a spell
(b) She is very ill
(c) She is healing herself
(d) She stubbed her toe

6. What is it that causes Father Gomez to find the window that Mary went through?
(a) The weather
(b) The old couple from Cittagazze
(c) A comunication from the Church
(d) A dream

7. What does Lyra and Will tell the Gallivespians that they must do before they go to Lord Asriel?
(a) Go fix the knife
(b) Make sure Ama is alright
(c) Find Iorek
(d) Find Mrs. Coulter

8. What do the villagers think that Mrs. Coulter is?
(a) A witch
(b) A wierdo
(c) A pilgram
(d) A holy woman

9. What does Iorek tell Lyra when she says that she must go to the world of the dead?
(a) He tells her that the bears created the world of the dead
(b) He says that the world of the dead was created as a punishment
(c) He tells her that he has no soul and they may not meet again
(d) He tells her that the world of the dead is a myth

10. What had Mary told the Mulefa was needed in order for her spyglass to work?
(a) It had to be held one over each eye
(b) It had to be polished before hand
(c) The two pieces had to be held a handspan apart
(d) It had to be kept perfectly still

11. What causes Mrs. Coulter to drop her weapon?
(a) Pantalaimon bit her
(b) She was stabbed
(c) She was struck by a stray bullet
(d) Someone bit her

12. What does Will find was left behind when Lyra was taken?
(a) Her food
(b) Her daemon
(c) Alethiometer
(d) Her blanket

13. What is Dr. Mary Malone identified as?
(a) A witch
(b) The Tempter
(c) Eve
(d) The key

14. What creature does Atal tell Mary spoke to the first of their kind and showed them how to use the seed pods?
(a) Angel
(b) Dragon
(c) Snake
(d) Bird

15. What does Lyra do when the Gallivespians tell her that they will force her to come with them?
(a) She laughs
(b) She agrees to go
(c) She cries
(d) She tells them that she will not have anything to do with her father

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Father Gomez find himself while following Mary's path?

2. What is the part that Mary Malone had been told to play by her computer before she went through the window to the different world?

3. What does Lyra find while she is arguing with Tialys?

4. Why does Lyra tell Will she believed Mrs. Coulter was doing with her in the cave?

5. What does one of the harpies scream at Lyra when she begins explaining why they are there?

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