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

2. What does the alethiometer tell Lyra to follow in order to find the land of the dead?
(a) Follow the edge of the river
(b) Follow the edge of the mountain
(c) Follow the knife
(d) Follow the Gallivespians

3. What does Lyra tell Will she wants to do when they find Roger and Will's father?
(a) Run far away from Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter
(b) Go to her homeworld
(c) Set the ghosts free
(d) Return for Pantalaimon

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

5. What do the ghost children say is something that no one ever forgets?
(a) Sleep
(b) Their names
(c) Sunshine
(d) Laughter

Short Answer Questions

1. What attacks the Gallivespians when they approach the door?

2. What does Iorek tell Will will be just as important during the forging of the knife as what Iorek will do?

3. What does Iorek tell Lyra when she says that she must go to the world of the dead?

4. Who does Mrs. Coulter look like to Will causing him to drop the knife?

5. What thought comes to Will's mind and almost causes him to break the knife a second time?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the meeting between Mary and the Mulefa in Chapter 7.

2. Describe the scene in Chapter 22 where the ghost children begin talking to Lyra and Will about their daemons.

3. In Chapter 20 what does Mary explain is happening that is causing the seed pods to dwindle in number?

4. What is the condition and frame of mind of the two Gallivespians as they ride on Lyra and Will's shoulder at the beginning of chapter twenty-nine?

5. What does Marry notice about the Mulefa and the way that they live with each other in Chapter 10?

6. Describe Balthamos actions in Chapter 8 when he learns that Burach is dead.

7. Why does Serafin Pekkala break her arrow?

8. What does Metatron see when he looks at Mrs. Coulter?

9. Describe the scene in Chapter 37 when Pan and Kirjava tells Lyra and Will that they must close up all the windows.

10. What does Iorek tell Lyra happened when he and Will met and what it meant for Iorek as he tells it in Chapter 15?

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