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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does the Consul say in Chapter 6: “Let Darkness” “was one of the strictest men I’ve known, and though he ran the Institute according to the Law, it was a cold, unwelcoming place”?
(a) Victor Whitelaw.
(b) Granville Fairchild.
(c) Woosley Scott.
(d) Benedict Lightwood.

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

4. 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) Mudanes.
(b) Ifrits.
(c) Vampires.
(d) Shadowhunters.

5. What does Jem do with the medicine and the letter when he argues with Tessa in Chapter 7: “Dare to Wish”?
(a) He throws them into the river.
(b) He stomps on them.
(c) He throws them into the fireplace.
(d) He swallows both of them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long ago did Cecily come to the London Institute, according to the narrator in Chapter 7: “Dare to Wish”?

2. The letter to the Consul at the end of Chapter 5: “A Heart Divided” is from what Inquisitor?

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. What day is described as “no luck at all” for marrying in the folk rhyme that opens Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row”?

5. The seamstress says in the beginning of Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row” that what month is “a fortuitous time for a marriage”?

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