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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 weapon does Mrs. Coulter have?

2. What does Will sit down to do while Lyra and Roger talk?

3. What are the bears on a journey to do?

4. What does Lyra and Will tell the Gallivespians that they must do before they go to Lord Asriel?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Will and Lyra's reaction when they first see what it was that the ghasts were attacking?

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

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

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

5. What does Mary think will happen if the Dust is gone as described in Chapter 34?

6. 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?

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

8. Explain how Will breaks the knife in Chapter 38.

9. In chapter twenty-five what does Mrs. Coulter tell the young man that is supposed to be watching her as she begins to get out of the gyropter?

10. What does Mary tell Lyra and Will about why she quit being a nun?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Mrs. Coulter is Lyra's mother but they have a non traditional relationship. Explain the relationship between this mother and daughter pair as it appears in the first of the book. Explain how it is different at the end of the book. What events take place that cause these changes?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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