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

2. What does Dr. Malone call her computer that she uses to communicate with the Shadows?
(a) The Cave
(b) The Phone
(c) The Brain
(d) Smoke Signals

3. What does Mrs. Coulter do to the witch when the witch refuses to tell her anything about Lyra?
(a) Gouges out the witch's eyes
(b) Pulls out the witch's finger nails
(c) Breaks the witch's fingers one at a time
(d) Forces the witch to watch Bradey Bunch reruns

4. What does Lyra explain that the Church people in her world believe Dust to be?
(a) A person's soul
(b) Demon possession
(c) Original sin
(d) Allergy nightmares

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the police ask Lyra about while in Dr. Malone's office that lets her know she is in trouble?

2. What does Dr. Lanselius say is the reason that the zombies are fearless?

3. What does Lyra show Dr. Malone in an attempt to get Dr. Malone to agree to let her use the cave?

4. What does Will's father say he found in the "weather balloon" owned by the physicist Nelson?

5. What does Will do with the green leather writing case before going back to his world?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the mob of children that are nearing Lyra and Will before they attack in chapter eleven.

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

3. What does Lee begin thinking of while he is getting ready for the troops that are following Grumman in chapter fourteen?

4. How does the old man explain to Will to use the knife to cut through to another world?

5. How does Dr. Malone describe Shadows?

6. In chapter nine, how does Mrs. Coulter explain the two bodyguards that she carries?

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

8. In chapter six, what does Lee's Tartar guide, Umaq, tell him regarding the sky opening up?

9. What is Dr. Malone told when she goes to the office late at night in chapter twelve and hooks herself up to the Cave?

10. What does the witch, Lena Feldt, find about the men that are following them in the beginning of chapter fifteen?

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