View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the Gallivespians agree to give to Lyra and Will?

3. What weapon does Mrs. Coulter have?

4. What do the ghost children say is something that no one ever forgets?

5. What does Mary learn that the Mulefa call the Shadows that she is talking about?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What do the angels look like to Will?

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

7. Describe the scene when Mary is taken to the Mulefa village where the ghosts are coming through the window.

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

9. What is the condition and frame of mind of the two Gallivespians as they ride on Lyra and Will's shoulder at the beginning of chapter twenty-nine?

10. Describe the scene where Mrs. Coulter and Lord Asriel defeat Metatron.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the angels.

1) How are the angels in the story different from how angels are normally depicted.

2) Could a different creature have been substituted for the angels and created the same reaction from the reader? Explain your reasoning.

Essay Topic 3

Global Warming was tied into the story with Iorek and his clan forced to move to find a different home.

1) Why did the author put this factor into the story? What impression does it give the reader?

2) How would the story have been different if there had been no mention of the global warming?

3) What other aspects of the book tie to things currently happening in the world? Explain.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 976 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample