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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Pick his pocket
(b) Show him Pantalaimon
(c) Lie to him
(d) Show him the alethiometer

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

3. What does Sam Cansino tell Lee that Stanislaus Grumman's daemon was?
(a) A calico colored cat
(b) A fish
(c) A black eagle with a white head and breast
(d) A tawny mountain lion

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

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

6. What does Hester tell Lee to take after the Skraeling is dead?
(a) His letter to the Church
(b) His money purse
(c) His coat
(d) His ring

7. What does Thorold tell Serafina that he believes Lord Asriel is attempting to do?
(a) Save Lyra
(b) Destroy the Authority
(c) Prove that angels exists
(d) Destroy the church

8. 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 direction of the wind
(b) His Arctic fox daemon
(c) The northern lights
(d) The migration of the elk

9. What does Lyra see on top of the tower after the children have fled in Cittagazze?
(a) A young woman
(b) An owl
(c) A witch
(d) A young man

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

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

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

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

14. What does Lyra hear coming from the window that leads to Will's world?
(a) Radios
(b) Children playing
(c) Traffic
(d) Dogs

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Dr. Lanselius tell Serafina to go and talk to that might have answers about Lord Asriel?

2. What does Will's father discover the Eskimo's call the anomaly that John and the others are looking for?

3. What does the word "Yambe-Adda" mean?

4. What does Will see briefly on Sir Charles after Lyra has spit in his face?

5. What does Lyra's daemon, Pantalaimon, do that shocks Will for a moment?

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