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

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

3. What does Lyra ask the alethiometer when she first wakes up?

4. What does Lyra find while she is arguing with Tialys?

5. What do the Gallivespian's tell Will and Lyra they must do if they want to go off and talk in private?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lee Scorseby and John Parry instruct Will to do in order to save Lyra?

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

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

4. Describe the feelings that Mary has from being in the tree tops as it is explained in chapter twenty-seven.

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

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

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

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

9. What does Sattamax tell Mary that they need her help with?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Will and Lyra had shared many things.

1) Did it add anything to the story to know that Will and Lyra were both witches? Explain the importance of this information.

2) Why did Lyra and Will have to part at the end of the story?

3) Is it possible that they are ever able to find a way to be together? Explain your reasoning.

Essay Topic 3

Love seems to play a large role in the story.

1) How would the story have been different if there had been no love themes introduced?

2) What characters in the story other than Lyra and Will have a love theme surrounding them? Explain.

3) What was meant by 'love is ferocious'? Is this true? Explain?

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