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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Lyra feel the loss of the alethiometer has changed her into?
(a) Someone who doesn't matter
(b) A ghast
(c) A failure
(d) A lost little girl

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

4. 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 cat
(c) A golden compass
(d) Dust

5. What does Sarafina Pekkala see while traveling to Svalvard?
(a) A Ghast
(b) A witch's daemon
(c) Mrs. Coulter's ship
(d) A witch

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

7. 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) Gun fire
(b) Screaming
(c) Coughing
(d) Laughing

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

9. What does Mrs. Coulter do to the witch when the witch refuses to tell her anything about Lyra?
(a) Pulls out the witch's finger nails
(b) Gouges out the witch's eyes
(c) Forces the witch to watch Bradey Bunch reruns
(d) Breaks the witch's fingers one at a time

10. What does Sir Charles say that he can come up with easily to prove the alethiometer is his?
(a) Photographs
(b) Witnesses
(c) Documents
(d) Bill of Sale

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

12. What does Will's father discover the Eskimo's call the anomaly that John and the others are looking for?
(a) Gateway to heaven
(b) Passage to manhood
(c) Door to the spirit world
(d) Door to the other side

13. What does Lyra produce when Will asks her if she has any money?
(a) A blank check book
(b) A credit card
(c) Gold
(d) Jewels

14. What do the men ask Will's mother about when they come to see her?
(a) A lost cat
(b) Her money
(c) A golden compass
(d) Wil's father

15. What happens while Will is in the house that changes his plans?
(a) He kills one of the men
(b) Wil finds the case empty
(c) Mrs. Cooper returns with Wil's mother
(d) The men get the case before he does

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Cardinal suggest that Mrs. Coulter must have known about and not told them?

2. What do Will and Lyra find the children of Cittagazze are fighting?

3. Who does Umaq tell Lee to go ask about Stanislaus Grumman?

4. What do the police ask Lyra about while in Dr. Malone's office that lets her know she is in trouble?

5. What does Will warn Lyra he will do if she threatens his hiding?

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