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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Will warn Lyra he will do if she threatens his hiding?
(a) Leave her on her own
(b) Punch her
(c) Kill her
(d) Eat her daemon

2. What does the alethiometer say when Lyra asks it what her dream means in chapter three?
(a) It is confusing
(b) It was a dream about a head
(c) No more pizza before bed time
(d) The head was never there

3. What does Lyra explain that the Church people in her world believe Dust to be?
(a) A person's soul
(b) Demon possession
(c) Original sin
(d) Allergy nightmares

4. What do Lyra and Will hear when they go back through the window to the other world after they are done at the cinema?
(a) Coughing
(b) Laughing
(c) Screaming
(d) Gun fire

5. What does Saraphina tell Thorold that she is going to go do?
(a) Destroy the church
(b) Help Lord Asriel
(c) Go kill Mrs. Coulter
(d) Make sure Lyra is safe

6. What does Lyra show Dr. Malone in an attempt to get Dr. Malone to agree to let her use the cave?
(a) The window
(b) Alethiometer
(c) Her webbed toes
(d) Pantalaimon

7. What does Will do when Lyra takes some clothing from an empty clothing store in Cittàgazze?
(a) Puts his mother's credit card on the counter
(b) Leaves the owner an I.O.U.
(c) Puts Lyra's clothing in its place
(d) Leaves some money

8. Why does Lee explain he is looking for Stanislaus Grumman?
(a) Stanislaus took Lee's horse
(b) Lee owes Stanislaus money
(c) A witch sent him
(d) Stanislaus owes him money

9. What does Will see briefly on Sir Charles after Lyra has spit in his face?
(a) A cricket
(b) A bunny
(c) A gray moth
(d) A green snake

10. Who does Umaq tell Lee to go ask about Stanislaus Grumman?
(a) The witch Stanislaus turned down
(b) The church
(c) The Tartar tribe that he belonged to
(d) The spirits

11. What does Lyra tell Will would happen to the alethiometer if she began using it to spy on people for her enjoyment?
(a) It would begin reading false
(b) It would stop working
(c) It would charge admission
(d) It would make her ill

12. While Will stands trying to decide what to do while in Oxford what does he see that catches his attentions?
(a) A dog
(b) A golden compass
(c) A cat
(d) Dust

13. What do the men in the bar say that Stanislaus Grumman's interests were in?
(a) Rock oil
(b) Philosophical things
(c) Magical items
(d) The aurora

14. What does Lee and his daemon notice when they look at Skraeling's daemon's face?
(a) Hostility
(b) Love
(c) Fear
(d) Illness

15. What is significant about the year that Will's father went missing?
(a) It is the year that Will's mother went nuts
(b) It is the year Will was born
(c) It is the year that the Church began exploring
(d) It is the year that Dust appeared

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lyra tell Will to do to Sir Charles?

2. What does Serafina say she can feel from the spectral forms?

3. What does Will stop and buy?

4. What does Lee find out Stanislaus Grumman had done as part of his initiation into the Tartar clan?

5. What does Lyra do after Sir Charles locks away the alethiometer?

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