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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 Lyra feel the loss of the alethiometer has changed her into?
(a) A failure
(b) A ghast
(c) Someone who doesn't matter
(d) A lost little girl

2. What does Lyra tell the police officers that she and Will are looking for?
(a) Mall
(b) Museum
(c) Library
(d) Police Station

3. Why does Lee explain he is looking for Stanislaus Grumman?
(a) Lee owes Stanislaus money
(b) Stanislaus took Lee's horse
(c) Stanislaus owes him money
(d) A witch sent him

4. 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) The migration of the elk
(c) The northern lights
(d) His Arctic fox daemon

5. 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) Laughing
(d) Gun fire

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Will go to hide for a short period of time when he first reaches Oxford?

3. What does Will do when Lyra takes some clothing from an empty clothing store in Cittàgazze?

4. When Will is forced to flee his home where does he travel to in order to find answers to his questions?

5. When the young witch, Juta Kamainen, comes to Serafina what does she say about Stanislaus Grumman?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the scene where the witches attempt to heal Will's hand in chapter thirteen.

2. What does Lee see when he leaves his body and is able to fly with Grumman's daemon?

3. Explain the thoughts that Will recalls of the fights that he has had in the past when he begins his battle in chapter eight?

4. What is wrong with Will when he first wakes up in chapter eleven?

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

6. In chapter fifteen, describe the feelings that Will can't quite put into words when Lyra asks him why they should be finding Will's father.

7. What does Sir Charles explain he would like to do with one of the two bodyguards that Mrs. Coulter carries?

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

9. Grumman explains to Lee why it is the Specters only attack adults. What is this explanation he gives in chapter fourteen?

10. What does Sir Charles tell Dr. Malone and Dr. Payne his three conditions are for helping their funding be restored in chapter twelve?

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