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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 Hester tell Lee to take after the Skraeling is dead?

2. What does Lyra feel the loss of the alethiometer has changed her into?

3. What does Serafina give to Lee Scoresby so that he can call her wherever he is?

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

5. How does Lyra tell Will she got to the world her and Will are currently in in chapter three?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the second chapter what does Mrs. Coulter say about Lyra being her daughter?

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the situation that the children of Cittagazze. Is it understandable that they have grouped up the way that they have? Is their behavior understandable?

Essay Topic 2

Explain the reason that Lee was given the option of going with Grumman's daemon while she was attacking the zeppelins. What was it that it gave Lee to be allowed this?

Essay Topic 3

There are several characters that die in the book.

1) Was it necessary that Lee and Hester die in the story? What purpose did it serve for the author and the story?

2) Was it necessary that Sir Charles die? What purpose did it serve?

3) Was it necessary that Grumman, Will's father, die? What purpose did it serve?

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