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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the word "Yambe-Adda" mean?
(a) The goddess of death
(b) I left the coffee pot on
(c) I give myself to death
(d) There is no life in me

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

4. What does the Cardinal suggest that Mrs. Coulter must have known about and not told them?
(a) That Mrs. Coulter knew about the prophecy concerning Lyra
(b) That Mrs. Coulter is hiding Lyra
(c) That Mrs. Coulter is helping Lyra's father
(d) That Mrs. Coulter is aiding the witches

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

6. What does Will tell Lyra she will need before she goes to his Oxford?
(a) Less conspicious clothing
(b) Money
(c) A comb
(d) Her alethiometer

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

8. Which is NOT an attribute of the strange fog that rolls in as it is described in chapter six?
(a) Voices come from the fog
(b) Occasionally there is strange light coming from it
(c) Forms could be vaguely seen
(d) It causes people to fall asleep

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

10. 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

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

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

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

14. What does Lyra tell Will to do to Sir Charles?
(a) Tear him into pieces
(b) Rip his fingers off
(c) Find him
(d) Kill him

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Lanselius say is the reason that the zombies are fearless?

2. What do the men in the bar say that Stanislaus Grumman's interests were in?

3. What is Lyra surprised to see that Will doesn't have?

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

5. Where does Mr. Perkins tell Will that the money comes from every few months that Will and his mother receive?

(see the answer keys)

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