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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. What does Lyra find while she is arguing with Tialys?
(a) Will's death
(b) Roger's death
(c) Mrs. Coulter's death
(d) Her death

2. What is Mary Malone building a machine to help her do?
(a) See shadows
(b) Communicate with the Mulefa
(c) Help grow seed pods
(d) Protect the Mulefa

3. What is the response of the Gallivespian spies when they find that Lyra and Will don't intend to wait for Lord Asriel's transport for them?
(a) They tell the children that they are risking the world
(b) They accuse the children of working with the Church
(c) They accuse Will of Lying
(d) They say that Will and Lyra are afraid

4. 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?
(a) The mother
(b) The child
(c) The savior
(d) The serpent

5. What does Will do to stop the fight between the bears and the towns people?
(a) Uses the knife to sink he bears boat
(b) Opens a window to a different world
(c) Forces the people to give the bears fuel
(d) Chalenges the bear's leader to single combat

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary Malone tell the Mulefa that cause them to laugh?

2. What does Will ask the angel, Bathalmos, to do before they go into Lyra's world?

3. What do the villagers think that Mrs. Coulter is?

4. What happens to the fox after he tells the Cliff Ghast about Iorek and Serafina?

5. What do the people alive in the town where Lyra and Will are tell them that people have with them all the time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mary tell Lyra and Will about why she quit being a nun?

2. Describe the feeling that Will has while Lyra is calling for Pan?

3. What does the angel tell Lord Asriel about the Authority shortly before he dies?

4. Describe the scene in which Father MacPhail is attempting to set off the mahine that will kill Lyra.

5. Explain why Will refuses to kill the toad despite Tialys' suggestion that doing so would be merciful.

6. What does Roger explain to Lyra the Harpies do in chapter twenty-three?

7. What happens in Chapter 13 when Will and Lyra are first introduced to the Gallivespian spies and they tell Will and Lyra that they have to go to Lord Asriel?

8. Describe the scene when Mary is taken to the Mulefa village where the ghosts are coming through the window.

9. What makes Tialys angry when Lyra is telling her and Will's story while in the Suburb of the death in Chapter 19?

10. What does Will explain is the difference in him having to take care of his mother and someone else taking care of her?

(see the answer keys)

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