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

2. What does Lady Salmakia find out the Church believes about Lyra?

3. What does Lyra do when the Gallivespians tell her that they will force her to come with them?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the dilemma that Will faces when he learns that he must destroy the knife in Chapter 37?

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

4. Why are the bears looking for a new home as it is described in Chapter 9?

5. 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?

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

7. What do the angels look like to Will?

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Father Gomez appeared he was going to take a large part in the story.

1) Why did the author never allow Father Gomez to be seen by the children?

2) What was the significance of the angel killing Father Gomez? Why didn't he go and tell the children?

3) What did it give to the reader to see Father Gomez and his tracking of Lyra through Mary? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

There is a lot of reference to the Bible in the story.

1) Why did the author choose to focus on the bible as a basis for his story line?

2) How does it change the story to have it based on the Bible theme? How would it have been different if there had been no mention of Eve, God or Enoch?

3) Does the book seem to aim the reader at an anti-God feeling? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

1) Why was it Will and Lyra that suddenly changed the flow of the Dust?

2) Explain why no one else could have changed the flow of the Dust or could they have?

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