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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 had Mary told the Mulefa was needed in order for her spyglass to work?

2. What weapon does Mrs. Coulter have?

3. Why does Will tell the Lady and Tialys that he hasn't said anything to the ghosts about getting them out?

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 makes it hard to communicate with the ghosts?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

7. Describe the scene in Chapter 37 when Pan and Kirjava tells Lyra and Will that they must close up all the windows.

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

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

10. What does Iorek tell Lyra happened when he and Will met and what it meant for Iorek as he tells it in Chapter 15?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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.

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