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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 do the people alive in the town where Lyra and Will are tell them that people have with them all the time?

2. What does Iorek tell Will will be just as important during the forging of the knife as what Iorek will do?

3. What does Will discover about the Harpies and their intentions?

4. What does Atal do when Mary finally returns to the ground?

5. What must Lyra leave on the shore in order to go to the world of the dead?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 20 what does Mary explain is happening that is causing the seed pods to dwindle in number?

2. What is the response of the Gallivespians when Will and Lyra tell them they are going to the world of the dead?

3. What happens when Tialys tells Will and Lyra he hears horses and they should hide themselves?

4. What does Lyra do when her own death appears?

5. Describe the scene in which Father MacPhail is attempting to set off the mahine that will kill Lyra.

6. What does Will tell Lyra when she is worried that she has lost the ability to lie, the only thing she feels she is good at?

7. Why does Serafin Pekkala break her arrow?

8. What is it that makes Ama so mad when she sees Mrs. Coulter in Chapter 4?

9. Describe the feeling that Will has while Lyra is calling for Pan?

10. What happens in Chapter 12 when Will is trying to get Lyra to wake up?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the knife. Why was the thought of Will's mother and eventually the thought of Lyra enough to break the knife? When Iorek had said that the knife might have intentions of it's own was he right? Did the knife have a consciousness? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Global Warming was tied into the story with Iorek and his clan forced to move to find a different home.

1) Why did the author put this factor into the story? What impression does it give the reader?

2) How would the story have been different if there had been no mention of the global warming?

3) What other aspects of the book tie to things currently happening in the world? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Father Gomez didn't want to hurt Will.

1) Explain why he was alright with hurting Lyra but not Will.

2) What did it reveal to the reader about Father Gomez that he had been asking forgiveness for killing Lyra long before he had done it so that he would be absolved of the sin?

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