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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At the beginning of chapter four who does Will call?
(a) Family doctor
(b) His mother
(c) Family lawyer
(d) Mrs. Cooper

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

4. What does Will do with the green leather writing case before going back to his world?
(a) Slips it under the mattress
(b) Hides it in the library
(c) Puts it under a bridge
(d) Puts it under the refridgerator

5. When Will rescues the cat, what does Lyra think it is for a brief moment?
(a) A Specter
(b) A zombie
(c) Will's daemon
(d) A ghost

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

7. What is one of the ways the Tartar that Lee hires to drive him to the observatory able to make his way through the dense fog without getting lost?
(a) The migration of the elk
(b) The northern lights
(c) The direction of the wind
(d) His Arctic fox daemon

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

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

10. What does Lee find out Stanislaus Grumman had done as part of his initiation into the Tartar clan?
(a) Skull drilled
(b) Back tattooed
(c) Head shaved
(d) Ear pierced

11. Who arrives and gives Lyra a ride, calling her 'Lizzie'?
(a) Will
(b) Sir Charles
(c) Dr. Malone
(d) Lord Asriel

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

13. What does Lyra's cat do that shocks Will?
(a) Disappears
(b) Growls
(c) Bites
(d) Changes shape

14. What does Angelica tell Lyra and Will it is that has made the grown ups leave?
(a) A religious holiday
(b) Specter
(c) Witches
(d) Members of the church

15. What does Serafina give to Lee Scoresby so that he can call her wherever he is?
(a) A flower
(b) A lock of her hair
(c) A ribbon from her dress
(d) A cell phone

Short Answer Questions

1. When Lyra asks the alethiometer where to find a Scholar to ask about the dust, what does the alethiometer tell her to be sure not to do when she speaks with the Scholar?

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

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

4. What does Lyra see on top of the tower after the children have fled in Cittagazze?

5. What is Lyra doing when she walks in to where she and Will are staying after his narrow escape from the police?

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