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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(d) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

2. 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) Parabatai.
(b) Eremiel.
(c) Mundanes.
(d) Automatons.

3. What is the setting that is described in the opening of the Prologue?
(a) Dublin.
(b) Wales.
(c) London.
(d) York.

4. What Shakespearean play is cited in the opening of Chapter 4: “To Be Wise and Love”?
(a) Troilus and Cressida.
(b) Macbeth.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) The Merry Wives of Windsor.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Cecily spend the bulk of her time at the London Institute, according to the narrator in Chapter 7: “Dare to Wish”?

3. Of the horses driving the second carriage that arrives behind Jessamine’s, Tessa notes in Chapter 8: “That Fire of Fire,” “their bodies gleamed not like the pelts of animals but like” what?

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

5. What was the name of Gideon and Gabriel’s mother in the novel?

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