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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Will Herondale’s sister with whom he speaks in Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row”?
(a) Adele Herondale.
(b) Cecily Herondale.
(c) Tatiana Herondale.
(d) Charlotte Herondale.

2. What is the name of the medicine that Jem is in need of in Chapter 3: “To the Last Hour”?
(a) Yin fen.
(b) Enkeli.
(c) Opium.
(d) Iratze.

3. What was the name of Gideon and Gabriel’s mother in the novel?
(a) Mary Lightwood.
(b) Barbara Lightwood.
(c) Elizabeth Lightwood.
(d) Muriel Lightwood.

4. Charlotte tells Will and Jem in Chapter 6: “Let Darkness” that Jessamine is returning “and if none of you can bear to have her here, I will arrange for her transport to” where?
(a) “York.”
(b) “New York.”
(c) “Idris.”
(d) “Chiswick.”

5. What word in the novel is used to describe a secretive demon-hunting race of humans born with angelic blood that has survived for over a thousand years?
(a) Ifrits.
(b) Mudanes.
(c) Vampires.
(d) Shadowhunters.

6. What gemstone is described in the necklace that Will has given Cecily before departing the London Institute in Chapter 12: “Ghosts on the Road”?
(a) Emerald.
(b) Sapphire.
(c) Ruby.
(d) Garnet.

7. Where is the location of Cecily and Will Herondale’s parents’ home?
(a) France.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Germany.
(d) Wales.

8. The title of Chapter 2: “The Conqueror Worm” is a literary allusion to a poem by what author?
(a) Lord Byron.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(d) Percy Bysshe Shelley.

9. The poem “Laus Veneris” that opens Chapter 5: “A Heart Divided” was written by whom?
(a) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(b) Algernon Charles Swinburne.
(c) Algernon Charles Swinburne.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

10. What village does Will hope to reach by nightfall in Chapter 12: “Ghosts on the Road”?
(a) Chiswick.
(b) Bedfordshire.
(c) Cwn Annwn.
(d) Hockliffe.

11. The poem “Carrion Comfort” that is cited in the opening of Chapter 3: “To the Last Hour” was written by what English poet?
(a) Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(b) Edgar Allen Poe.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

12. Gabriel claims in Chapter 6: “Let Darkness” to have killed the worm by putting an arrow through it where?
(a) Its eye.
(b) Its heart.
(c) Its tail.
(d) Its torso.

13. What is the name of Gabriel and Gideon Lightwood’s father in the novel?
(a) Abel Lightwood.
(b) James Lightwood.
(c) Abraham Lightwood.
(d) Benedict Lightwood.

14. The folk rhyme that opens Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row” begins with the line “Marry on Monday for” what?
(a) “Love.”
(b) “Loss.”
(c) “Children.”
(d) “Health.”

15. What word used in the novel refers to a pair of Nephilim warriors who fight together and are closer than siblings, regardless of their gender?
(a) Eremiel.
(b) Parabatai.
(c) Automatons.
(d) Mundanes.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what “notorious music hall and gentlemen’s club in Piccadilly Circus” does the Consul take Gabriel and Gideon in Chapter 6: “Let Darkness”?

2. What color is Tessa Gray’s wedding dress said to be in Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row”?

3. In the opening of Chapter 2: “The Conqueror Worm,” the Institute’s carriage rolls through the gates of Lightwood House in what setting?

4. Will stands overlooking the placid countryside of what location in the opening of Chapter 12: “Ghosts on the Road”?

5. Where does Jessamine say Mortmain is as she dies in Chapter 9: “Graven in Metal”?

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