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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Screen Language.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Lyra asks the alethiometer where to find a Scholar to ask about the dust, what does the alethiometer tell her to be sure not to do when she speaks with the Scholar?
(a) Show him the alethiometer
(b) Show him Pantalaimon
(c) Pick his pocket
(d) Lie to him

2. What does Will stop and buy?
(a) Some gum
(b) A disposable cell phone
(c) A camera to capture anything important
(d) Supplies so he will look like he is on a school project

3. What does Lyra explain that the Church people in her world believe Dust to be?
(a) Original sin
(b) Allergy nightmares
(c) Demon possession
(d) A person's soul

4. What does Dr. Malone say that the police officer was from that came to see about Lyra?
(a) Special Branch
(b) FBI
(c) Homeland Security
(d) Intergalactic Branch

5. What do Will and Lyra find in the top of the tower?
(a) A stack of papers about dust and dark matter
(b) A bag of other knives that have been discarded
(c) An old man tied up
(d) Specter fragments

Short Answer Questions

1. What is significant about the year that Will's father went missing?

2. What does Charles hand Lyra when she turns to leave after looking at the trepanned skulls?

3. Where does Mr. Perkins tell Will that his father, John Parry, was when he went missing?

4. What does Paolo yell at Lyra after the Specters have attacked Tullio?

5. What does the old man tell Will and Lyra he will do after they leave?

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