The
Golden Compass Quizzes
1. What room does Lyra sneak into at the beginning of Chapter 1?
2. Who is the Master trying to poison and what is Lyra’s relationship with him?
3. During his presentation, Lord Asriel shows a pictogram with something visible in the sky. What is visible?
4. Lord Asriel also opens a box with a vacuum seal and shows something to the scholars. What is in the box?
5. Where is Lord Asriel headed when he leaves Jordan College?
6. At the end of chapter 2, what does the Master predict that Lyra will do?
2. What do the kids call the group of people who are kidnapping kids all over England?
3. The first child to be kidnapped was taken away by a young woman who tricked him. What kind of daemon did she have?
4. Lyra begins to explore the underground tunnels under the college, including the crypt where all the old Masters are buried. What does she find in each of the dead Masters’ helmets?
5. At the end of the chapter, Lyra realizes something about Roger, but no one believes her. What does she realize?
6. What do all of the children that are kidnapped have in common?
1. The Master tells Lyra in Chapter 4 that it is time for her to leave Jordan College. Where does he tell her she is going to go?
2. What does the Master give to Lyra before she leaves, and who does he tell her to keep it a secret from?
3. When Mrs. Coulter throws a cocktail party at her apartment in London, she doesn’t want Lyra to wear a purse, but Lyra wants to. What happens to change Lyra’s mind?
4. At the party, Lyra finds out more information about the General Oblation Board. Who are they really, and who runs the General Oblation Board?
5. Lyra also finds out some information about her uncle at the party from Lord Boreal. Who is holding her uncle prisoner?
6. What does the alethiometer actually do?
Chapters 6 & 7
1. After Lyra and Pan escape from Mrs. Coulter, they wander the streets of London, where they are captured by two strange men. What do the men use to capture Lyra?
2. Three other gyptian men show up to rescue Lyra, one of which Lyra knows. Who does Lyra know that rescues her?
3. The gyptians are taking Lyra on their boat to their land, the fens, for a special meeting about the Gobblers. What is the name of the meeting they attend?
4. At this meeting, Lyra meets the lord of the western gyptians and learns what he intends to do about all the kidnapped children. What is his name, and what is his plan?
5. Lyra also learns the truth about her father and mother in chapter 7. Who are her real father and mother?
6. At the beginning of chapter 6, a strange man pays for Lyra’s sandwich and coffee. What else does he offer Lyra, which she turns down?
1. How many men have volunteered to go on the gyptians’ mission to rescue the kidnapped children?
2. Some of the gyptians want to turn in Lyra to the authorities who are looking for her. What does John Faa give as the main reason that they shouldn’t and won’t turn her in?
4. When Lyra and Pan are on the boat with the gyptians heading North, Pan, while flying around as a seagull, is attacked. What attacks him?
5. Who does Farder Coram suspect sent this thing that attacked Pan, and why?
1. Farder Coram reveals that he once saved a witch’s life. How did he save her life?
2. What does Lyra learn from Farder Coram about witches and their daemons that is different from humans and their daemons?
3. Farder Coram and Lyra consult Martin Lanselius, the witch consul, and he tells them to hire someone else for their journey. Who does he advise them to hire?
4. What kind of daemon does the witch, Serafina Pekkala, have?
5. Iorek Byrnison says his armor is very important to him, and not just for protection. What does he say his armor is like to him?
6. Where does Lyra discover Iorek’s armor is hidden?
Chapters 14 & 15
1. How does Lyra get to Bolvangar?
2. Lyra gets awakened by 3 girls, who tell her all the doctors do tests on all of the kids. What do the girls say they are testing the children for?
3. Who helps Lyra, Roger and Billy break into the building with "Entry Strictly Forbidden" on the door?
4. What do Lyra, Roger, and Billy find in the building that they break in to?
5. What does Lyra say will be the signal for all the kids at Bolvangar to escape?
1. In Chapter 16, Lyra and Annie have a disagreement because Annie wants to accompany Lyra on her mission to spy on the adults. How do they settle this disagreement?
2. While she is spying from the ceiling, she hears that her father has created a special alloy that they use to help them sever kids from their daemons. What two metals make up this alloy?
3. When Mrs. Coulter arrives and finds Lyra, she asks her to give her the alethiometer. What does Lyra give her instead?
4. What do Lyra and the other children do to make it past the Tartar guards, who are blocking their exit, when they are trying to escape Bolvangar?
5. At the end of chapter 17, Lyra is heading to Svalbard. How is she going to get there?
6. Specifically, why does Lyra say in chapter 17 is the reason she is going to Svalbard?
1. What does Lyra discover is the reason that Iorek killed another bear?
2. What is the name of the creatures that attack Lee Scoresby’s balloon, partly causing it to lose altitude and crash on Svalbard?
3. Lyra is captured by the bears and thrown in a cell with Jotham Santelia, a former professor of Cosmology at the University of Gloucester. Why was he brought by Iofur to Svalbard?
4. Lyra tells Iofur that she is Iorek’s daemon, but that she can be his daemon. What must Iofur to make Lyra his daemon?
5. Iofur asks Lyra to prove that she is a daemon by asking her two questions. Name one of the two questions he asks her.
6. What topic are Serafina Pekkala and Lee Scoresby debating at the beginning of Chapter 18?
Chapters 22 & 23
Answers
to quizzes
Chapters 6 & 7
1. 170
2. Her father, Lord Asriel (who has done numerous favors for the gyptians over the years)
3. It is utterly forbidden for humans to touch another person’s daemon
4. A green, beetle-like creature (probably a mechanical robot with a spell in it)
5. Mrs. Coulter, to spy on Lyra
Chapters 14 & 15
1. Gets kidnapped by Samoyeds and taken there
2. Dust
3. Kaisa, with his magic
4. The daemons who have been separated from their owners.
5. Fire alarm or drill, which she will pull
when she visited Svalbard
Chapters 22 & 23
1. Bringing Roger to Lord Asriel
2. With their fire hurler (like a catapult)
3. His daemon has Roger’s daemon in its mouth, preventing Roger from running away due to the pull
4. She is afraid of what the Church will do to her
5. To go to the other world and find the source of Dust before Lord Asriel
6.