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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. In what phase is the moon at the start of Chapter 19?
2. Malcolm sees a ring that he associates with which character in Chapter 16?
3. Coram tells Michael in Chapter 12 that who should prepare for the coming catastrophic event?
4. The title of Chapter 11 refers to how many appendages?
5. When Malcolm first hears the sound of a vehicle behind the canoe, to what does he attribute the sound?
Short Essay Questions
1. What event causes Malcolm to decide that the man with the hyena daemon must be insane?
2. From whom does Malcolm learn that someone has approached the priory, pretending to be Lyra's father?
3. What advice does Coram give to Malcolm about Gerard, the man with the hyena daemon?
4. For what type of audience is the novel Book of Dust intended?
5. About what coming catastrophe does Coram warn Malcolm?
6. What change in Malcolm's character is depicted within Chapters 16-20 of the text?
7. In what way is the hyena daemon Malcolm sees different than any other daemon he has seen?
8. What amount of time does Malcolm say it would normally take him to get to London in his canoe if the river were not flooded?
9. In what way does Malcolm's experience working at The Trout Inn help him in his endeavor to escape Gerard?
10. Give one example of a literary device Pullman uses within Chapters 11 through 15.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the reasons why Philip Pullman's novel Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage uses a third person omniscient narrator. What elements of the novel's themes lend themselves to this choice and what is the author's intended effect on the reader?
Essay Topic 2
How is the topic of courage treated within Philip Pullman's novel Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage and how does its treatment relate to the novel's depicted messages?
Essay Topic 3
Sensory details are used frequently by Pullman in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used by the author serve the author’s creation of vivid characters.
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