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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Will decide to put on the injured cat's cut ear?
(a) Glue
(b) Antiseptic
(c) Honey
(d) Tape

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

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

5. 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

6. 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

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

8. What does Charles hand Lyra when she turns to leave after looking at the trepanned skulls?
(a) His name and address
(b) A book about trepanned skulls
(c) A piece of gum
(d) A kitten

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

10. What does Will decide to do rather than phoning his mother?
(a) Send her a text message
(b) Write her a post card
(c) Send her a telegram
(d) Send her flowers

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lyra tell Will she got to the world her and Will are currently in in chapter three?

2. When Will rescues the cat, what does Lyra think it is for a brief moment?

3. What does Thorold tell Serafina that he believes Lord Asriel is attempting to do?

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

5. What does Lee and his daemon notice when they look at Skraeling's daemon's face?

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