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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 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

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

3. Who does Mrs. Coulter look like to Will causing him to drop the knife?
(a) A Specter
(b) An angel
(c) Lyra
(d) His mother

4. Who does Ama go to in order to try and help Mrs. Coulter's daughter?
(a) The village magician
(b) Her uncle
(c) A healer
(d) The town idiot

5. What makes it hard to communicate with the ghosts?
(a) They don't speak english
(b) They only moan
(c) They talk all at once
(d) They can only whisper

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the church intend to do to prove that Lyra is dead?

2. What creature does Atal tell Mary spoke to the first of their kind and showed them how to use the seed pods?

3. Who does Iorek say that he will side with in the coming war?

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

5. What does Father Gomez explain is the reason that the Specters don't bother him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Will and Lyra's reaction when they first see what it was that the ghasts were attacking?

2. Describe the scene where Brother Louis comes to take away Mrs. Coulter's necklace.

3. What does Mrs. Coulter tell Will in Chapter 11 that she is trying to do for Lyra?

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

5. What do Will and Lyra decide to do once a year in order to feel that they are still close to each other?

6. What does the alethiometer say in Chapter 14 when Lyra asks it about the knife's intentions?

7. What does Mary say about missing God?

8. Explain how Will breaks the knife in Chapter 38.

9. What do Will and Mary decide when they talk about the possibility of getting married when they get older?

10. What does Lyra do when her own death appears?

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