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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is found to be the cause of death in the man who drops the acorn-like object by the river early in the novel?
(a) Influenza.
(b) Heart attack.
(c) Drowning.
(d) Strangulation.

2. What two groups of people does Malcolm try to warn about the impending catastrophe in Chapter 14?
(a) The police and the CCD.
(b) His teachers and his classmates.
(c) The nuns and the union workers.
(d) The nuns and his teachers.

3. Whom does Eric hypothesize is responsible for the murdered man's death?
(a) The Muscovites.
(b) The Shiites.
(c) The Believers.
(d) The Troglodytes.

4. In Chapter 19, who asks Malcolm if he would like a biscuit?
(a) Hannah.
(b) Lord Nugent.
(c) Alice.
(d) Lyra.

5. What piece of information does Malcolm intentionally withhold from his parents about Hannah in Chapter 6?
(a) Her blood type.
(b) That she works at Oxford.
(c) That he is spying for her.
(d) Her last name.

Short Answer Questions

1. What staff member at Malcolm's school is fired in Chapter 10?

2. When Eric tells Malcolm that he has to be "suitable" (109), what word does he really mean to use?

3. On what type of homework is Malcolm working when he starts to envision a sparkling line?

4. At what location does Malcolm encounter Lord Asriel in Chapter 10?

5. Eric reports that his father had been unable to tell him about the murdered man being a spy due to the existence of what?

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