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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. What causes Mrs. Coulter to drop her weapon?

2. Who does Lyra tell the people that her and Will are?

3. What does Tialys say has happened to Mrs. Coulter?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens at the end of Chapter 16 after Mrs. Coulter is shown the intention craft?

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

3. What does Will tell Lyra when she is worried that she has lost the ability to lie, the only thing she feels she is good at?

4. What does Tialys say when Lee and John ask him if he will live long enough to see the world again?

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

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

7. What connection does Mary make between the worlds and the events that all began to happen three hundred years ago as described in chapter twenty-seven?

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

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

10. What is the response of the Gallivespians when Will and Lyra tell them they are going to the world of the dead?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Will is forced to take care of his mother.

1) Given Will's age what does it say that he tries so hard to take care of his mother?

2) Why is Will so frightened of going to live in a home? Of his mother going to an institution?

3) Was Will's role with his mother crucial to the story? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Look at the different quests that the characters in the book were on.

1) What was the ultimate quest of Will? Lyra?

2) Did any of the characters in the book truly know what their part in the story was from the beginning? Give examples.

3) Did the quests stay the same for the characters through the story? Explain. Did this add to the story or detract?

Essay Topic 3

What role did the witches play in the story? What did it signify that Will and Lyra were now part of their clan. Mary was never told that she was a witch but Serafina Pekkala did tell her that she had a sister and showed Mary how to see her daemon. What does this indicate to the reader about Mary? Explain.

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