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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Sir Charles claim to be and is the reason he wants the alethiometer?
(a) A magistrate for the Church
(b) A bitter old man
(c) A collector
(d) A truth seeker

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

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

5. What does Will begin looking for when he goes back to his empty house?
(a) Subtle Knife
(b) Thing one and Thing two
(c) Golden Compass
(d) Green leather writing case

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lyra tell Will to do to Sir Charles?

2. What does Angelica tell Lyra and Will it is that has made the grown ups leave?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lee have dreams of while camping in the forest with Grumman in chapter fourteen?

2. What do the letters that John sent his wife, Will's mother, reveal?

3. What does Grumman explain might be the problem with trying to protect Lyra with the subtle knife?

4. What does Lyra apologize to Will for in chapter seven when she returns from her narrow escape with the pale man posing as a police officer?

5. What do Lyra and Will say to each other in chapter thirteen about the way that the children behaved in Cittagazze attacking the cat and them?

6. Describe Will's father as he is detailed in chapter one, "The Cat and the Hornbeam Trees".

7. What is Dr. Malone's assessment of Sir Charles and his offer in chapter twelve?

8. What does Will find odd about Lyra and Pantalaimon?

9. What information is Lyra able to relate to Dr. Malone in chapter four in regards to dust?

10. What does Sarafina do when the tortured witch cries out for the goddess of death to come for her while Mrs. Coulter is torturing her?

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