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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) Someone who doesn't matter
(b) A failure
(c) A lost little girl
(d) A ghast

2. Where does Will go to hide for a short period of time when he first reaches Oxford?
(a) An AA meeting
(b) Cinema
(c) Church
(d) Library

3. What is Lyra doing when she walks in to where she and Will are staying after his narrow escape from the police?
(a) Crying
(b) Singing
(c) Skipping
(d) Laughing

4. What do the police ask Lyra about while in Dr. Malone's office that lets her know she is in trouble?
(a) Will
(b) Dark Matter
(c) Windown
(d) Dust

5. What does Lyra tell Will to do to Sir Charles?
(a) Tear him into pieces
(b) Kill him
(c) Find him
(d) Rip his fingers off

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the alethiometer say when Lyra asks it what her dream means in chapter three?

3. What does Lyra's daemon, Pantalaimon, do that shocks Will for a moment?

4. What does Hester tell Lee to take after the Skraeling is dead?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In chapter nine, what does Lyra say about the cat's reaction to Mrs. Coulter's monkey daemon?

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

3. What does Will think of when he sees Sir Charles' house in chapter seven?

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. What does Will explain in chapter thirteen is the reason that he thinks maybe the Specters came from his world?

7. In chapter seven when Lyra looses her temper, describe her reaction to Sir Charles.

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

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

10. In the second chapter what does Fra Pavel exaplain about Lyra and the alethiometer?

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