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

2. What does Roger try but fail to do when he sees Lyra?
(a) Kiss her
(b) Embrace her
(c) Tackle her
(d) Shake her hand

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

4. What does Tialys tell Will that they must do?
(a) Go find Lord Asriel
(b) Give themselves to the Africans
(c) Kill Mrs. Coulter
(d) Go to the Church members and plead their case

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect does Dr. Malone have on the Specters?

2. What is it that causes Father Gomez to find the window that Mary went through?

3. What is Lord Roke's people's job to do in order to help Lord Asriel?

4. What does Sattamax tell Mary they have been waiting on before they asked her for help?

5. What do they see along the road that Tialys says they should kill?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the relationship between Mary and Atal as it is shown in Chapter 17.

2. In chapter twenty-five what does Mrs. Coulter tell the young man that is supposed to be watching her as she begins to get out of the gyropter?

3. What is it that makes Ama so mad when she sees Mrs. Coulter in Chapter 4?

4. How does Asriel describe the cloud mountain seen in chapter twenty-eight?

5. Describe the scene in Chapter 21 when Lyra has to leave Pantalaimon behind on the shore.

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

7. Although Mary Malone has always wanted to climb trees what is bothering her at the thought of doing it in the Chapter 20?

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

9. What happens in Chapter 12 when Will is trying to get Lyra to wake up?

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

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