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

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

4. Why does Lyra not want to tell the Gallivespians where they are going?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the scene that happens between Mrs. Coulter and Lord Asriel in the end of chapter twenty-eight.

2. What happens when Lyra begins to tell Roger about Will?

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

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

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

6. When Mary shows Serafina the amber spyglass and Serafina sees the Dust how does Mary explain how it happened to settle on Will and Lyra?

7. What is Father MacPhail's response when he enters Mrs. Coulter's room?

8. What does Metatron see when he looks at Mrs. Coulter?

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

10. What does Roger explain to Lyra the Harpies do in chapter twenty-three?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the knife. Why was the thought of Will's mother and eventually the thought of Lyra enough to break the knife? When Iorek had said that the knife might have intentions of it's own was he right? Did the knife have a consciousness? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

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 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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