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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Cardinal suggest that Mrs. Coulter must have known about and not told them?

2. What does Will tell the driver of the car that hit Lyra that they are?

3. What does Lyra explain that the Church people in her world believe Dust to be?

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

5. What does Sir Charles claim to be and is the reason he wants the alethiometer?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Dr. Malone describe Shadows?

2. What does Will tell Lyra about where the specters might have come from in chapter eleven?

3. What is Lyra beginning to believe about the alethiometer while she is asking it questions in chapter four?

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

5. In chapter ten, what does John Parry, also known as Grumman, tell Lee he has summoned Lee to help him do?

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

7. In chapter six, what is Lee told is the reason for Stanislaus Grumman's bad luck?

8. What is the dream that wakes Lyra in chapter three?

9. 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?

10. What does Angela say about the grownups having to be gone when the Specters come out?

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