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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sir Charles claim to be and is the reason he wants the alethiometer?
(a) A collector
(b) A bitter old man
(c) A truth seeker
(d) A magistrate for the Church

2. 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 charge admission
(b) It would stop working
(c) It would begin reading false
(d) It would make her ill

3. How does Will know Mrs. Cooper?
(a) She used to sell him fresh fruit
(b) She was his piano teacher
(c) She had been a friend of his mother's
(d) She used to babysit Wil

4. Where does Mr. Perkins tell Will that the money comes from every few months that Will and his mother receive?
(a) Unknown origin
(b) Trust fund
(c) Will's mother is rich
(d) The people that had been in charge of John Parry's last expedition

5. What do Will and Lyra find the children of Cittagazze are fighting?
(a) Dog
(b) Witch
(c) Alligator
(d) Cat

6. Where does Will go to hide for a short period of time when he first reaches Oxford?
(a) Library
(b) Church
(c) An AA meeting
(d) Cinema

7. What does Will decide to put on the injured cat's cut ear?
(a) Honey
(b) Glue
(c) Antiseptic
(d) Tape

8. What does Will tell the driver of the car that hit Lyra that they are?
(a) Cousins
(b) Twins
(c) Neighbors
(d) Brother and sister

9. What form does Pantalaimon take that scares the children of Cittagazze away?
(a) Lion
(b) Elephant
(c) Leopard
(d) Tiger

10. What does Will's father say he found in the "weather balloon" owned by the physicist Nelson?
(a) Dynamite
(b) Guns
(c) Radiation suit
(d) Camcorders

11. What does Dr. Lanselius say is the reason that the zombies are fearless?
(a) They are protected by an ancient magic
(b) They are mindless
(c) They feel no pain
(d) They are already dead

12. How does Lyra tell Will she got to the world her and Will are currently in in chapter three?
(a) Sailed on a magic ship
(b) A witch flew her there
(c) She took a bus
(d) A bridge her father made

13. Who does Will see going into the lawyer's office just as Will decides he might need to go in there?
(a) Lyra
(b) The blond haired man who broke into Will's house
(c) Lord Asreil
(d) Mrs. Coulter

14. What does John tell his wife he will bring her at the end of his last letter?
(a) A spirit of hir own
(b) A picture of the anomaly
(c) A souvenir from the spirit world
(d) A jug of glacier water

15. 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) Pantalaimon
(c) Her webbed toes
(d) Alethiometer

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lyra check on to make sure it isn't broken after she is struck by the car?

2. What does Lyra's cat do that shocks Will?

3. What does Will ask Mrs. Cooper to do for him?

4. What does Sir Charles say that he can come up with easily to prove the alethiometer is his?

5. Who arrives and gives Lyra a ride, calling her 'Lizzie'?

(see the answer keys)

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