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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 sense do Malcolm and the other inhabitants of the canoe detect Gerard's close proximity?
(a) Sight.
(b) Hearing.
(c) Smell.
(d) Sound.

2. What are the men who take Lyra said to be wearing?
(a) Red headbands.
(b) White suits.
(c) Dark uniforms.
(d) Overalls.

3. Which organization is the one hunting for infant Lyra?
(a) The DDD.
(b) The CCC.
(c) The CCD.
(d) The DDC.

4. Chapter 16 is entitled The what?
(a) Pharmacy.
(b) Compound.
(c) Product.
(d) Combine.

5. When the vehicle following Malcolm, Alice, and Lyra falls back, Malcolm is so relieved that he takes what action?
(a) He screams.
(b) He faints.
(c) He cries.
(d) He vomits.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many rowers question Malcolm and the others as they hide inside the pharmacy?

2. Whose beauty stuns Malcolm when he meets her within Chapter 14?

3. Who is unconscious for nearly the entirety of Chapter 20?

4. When Alice, Malcolm, and Lyra are fleeing from Gerard, what kind of vehicle do they notice behind them?

5. What prevents Gerard from gaining entry to the building into which he is breaking?

Short Essay Questions

1. What object does Hannah see outside her home to cause her panic?

2. Discuss an example when Malcolm demonstrates a capacity for deception.

3. In what way does the motif of violence enter the narrative within Chapter 12?

4. What event causes Malcolm to decide that the man with the hyena daemon must be insane?

5. What does Andrew do in Chapter 20 to anger Malcolm?

6. In what way does Pullman depict Malcolm as being caught between the innocence of childhood and the worldiness of the society in which he lives?

7. In what way is the theme of altruism depicted within the scene of the return of La Belle Sauvage?

8. Give one example of a literary device Pullman uses within Chapters 11 through 15.

9. For what type of audience is the novel Book of Dust intended?

10. What advice does Coram give to Malcolm about Gerard, the man with the hyena daemon?

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