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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lyra hear coming from the window that leads to Will's world?

2. What does John tell his wife he will bring her at the end of his last letter?

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

4. What does Will ask Mrs. Cooper to do for him?

5. What does Serafina say she can feel from the spectral forms?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe what happens between the specters and the grown ups as Angela describes it in chapter three.

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

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

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

7. Describe the scene in chapter eight when Lyra watches Tullio run out of the building?

8. In chapter four, what does Lyra suddenly begin considering after she sees the initials SP carved into a stone on the corner of Catte Street?

9. Describe Lyra's reaction when she returns to Will in chapter seven after having discovered that her alethiometer is gone.

10. What is significant about Pantalaimon's actions when Will is first learning to use the knife in chapter eight?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The old man who teaches Will to use the knife commits suicide. What is the reason that the man killed himself? Why could he not have gone through a window to another world? Given what is known, what was his frame of mind that caused him to feel that death was the only option left to him?

Essay Topic 2

There are beings in the story that eventually come to be known as Zngels. Describe Angels, given what is known about them. In what way are these creatures the same as the ones that are commonly thought of in real life?

Essay Topic 3

Look at Will's responsibilities with his mother. Is it possible that Will is more adult than child? Explain. Is it wrong that Will be the one that should take care of his mother?

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