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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 Chapter 19, who asks Malcolm if he would like a biscuit?
2. Andrew confesses to being a part of what organization?
3. Alice and Lyra make it back to the canoe, while Malcolm stops to grab what object of Gerard's?
4. Malcolm decides to set a course for Lord Asriel's home so that he can deliver which being to Lord Asriel?
5. In what way is the hyena daemon unlike any other Malcolm has seen?
Short Essay Questions
1. What event causes Malcolm to decide that the man with the hyena daemon must be insane?
2. In what way does Malcolm's experience working at The Trout Inn help him in his endeavor to escape Gerard?
3. In what way is the hyena daemon Malcolm sees different than any other daemon he has seen?
4. In what way does Pullman depict Malcolm as being caught between the innocence of childhood and the worldiness of the society in which he lives?
5. For what type of audience is the novel Book of Dust intended?
6. Give one example of a literary device Pullman uses within Chapters 11 through 15.
7. In what way does the motif of violence enter the narrative within Chapter 12?
8. Describe the men who succeed in taking Lyra from Malcolm and Alice.
9. Describe how Pullman uses a simile within Chapters 16-20 and for what purpose.
10. In what way does Pullman demonstrate Malcolm's capacity to be deceived himself?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze Philip Pullman's novel Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage from an Existential perspective. What elements of life does it suggest hold the most meaning and why?
Essay Topic 2
Trace the characterization arc of Malcolm’s character throughout the novel. Discuss whether he is a round or flat character and whether he is a static or dynamic character.
Essay Topic 3
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Philip Pullman's novel Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the novel.
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