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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Lyra doing when she walks in to where she and Will are staying after his narrow escape from the police?
(a) Laughing
(b) Crying
(c) Skipping
(d) Singing

3. What does Will say when Lyra apologizes for not having used the alethiometer to help him find his father?
(a) He laughs
(b) He doesn't care if she is sorry or not
(c) He tells her that he is ashamed of his behavior also
(d) He comforts her

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

5. What does Lyra check on to make sure it isn't broken after she is struck by the car?
(a) Her daemon
(b) Her leg
(c) Alethiometer
(d) Her ipod

6. Why does Sarafina not want to use the spell which makes her invisible?
(a) It can kill a witch
(b) It draws ghosts to use it
(c) It can hurt her daemon
(d) It will leave her exhauseted

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

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

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

10. When the young witch, Juta Kamainen, comes to Serafina what does she say about Stanislaus Grumman?
(a) She loves him
(b) She knows he works for the church
(c) She wants to kill him
(d) He has been dead for many years

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

12. What does Serafina say she can feel from the spectral forms?
(a) Despair
(b) Fear
(c) Love
(d) Malice

13. What does Will ask Mrs. Cooper to do for him?
(a) Fix him some soup
(b) Watch his mother
(c) Come clean his house
(d) Hide him

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

15. What does Lyra suggest they do in order to get the alethiometer back?
(a) Go to Dr. Malone for help
(b) Go to the police
(c) Use the window to get into Sir Charles' bedroom
(d) Steal it

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Will's father say he found in the "weather balloon" owned by the physicist Nelson?

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

3. What does Mrs. Coulter do to the witch when the witch refuses to tell her anything about Lyra?

4. What does John explain in his letter that Nelson's funding comes from?

5. What is significant about the year that Will's father went missing?

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