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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Ama go to in order to try and help Mrs. Coulter's daughter?

2. What does Mrs. Coulter's monkey daemon hear?

3. What do the children ghosts think when they see the Gallivespian's dragon flies?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the scene in which Ama asks Mrs. Coulter if she has an evil spirit with her.

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

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

4. What does Mary think will happen if the Dust is gone as described in Chapter 34?

5. In Chapter 18 what is seen and what does Will tell Lyra about his thoughts and the reason the knife broke in the first place?

6. Why does Serafin Pekkala break her arrow?

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

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

9. What do Lyra and Will decide about their daemons when they awake.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Father Gomez didn't want to hurt Will.

1) Explain why he was alright with hurting Lyra but not Will.

2) What did it reveal to the reader about Father Gomez that he had been asking forgiveness for killing Lyra long before he had done it so that he would be absolved of the sin?

Essay Topic 2

Iorek eats Lee's body earlier on in the story. What does this tell the reader and was it significant that the reader know that Iorek had eaten Lee's body? Explain. In cannibalistic cultures, it was believed that devouring someone could give the eater part of the creatures memories or characteristics. Do you think this has a bearing on Iorek's decision? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

1) Dust, Shadows and Sraf are all the same thing. Explain the difference between Dust and the angels.

2) Angels were said to have worked Mary Malones machine. Was her machine worked by the same thing as the alethiometer? Explain.

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