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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 word from Chapter 6: “Let Darkness” refers to a dish consisting of cooked, flaked fish, boiled rice, parsley, hard-boiled eggs, curry powder, and butter or cream?
(a) Posset.
(b) Kedgeree.
(c) Enkeli.
(d) Parabatai.

2. The letter to the Consul from Gabriel and Gideon which opens Chapter 7: “Dare to Wish” relates that the amount of money Charlotte Branwell spends on what items “rivals the annual income of a large estate or small country”?
(a) Shoes.
(b) Hats.
(c) Gloves.
(d) Coats.

3. How long ago did Cecily come to the London Institute, according to the narrator in Chapter 7: “Dare to Wish”?
(a) 7 months ago.
(b) 3 weeks ago.
(c) 2 years ago.
(d) 8 weeks ago.

4. Aloysius Starkweather tells his granddaughter before the ceremony in the Prologue, “Your first Marks mean you are Nephilim, like me, like your mother and father. They mean you are part of” what?
(a) “The Automatons.”
(b) “The Downworlders.”
(c) “The Clave.”
(d) “The New World Order.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What color hair are Will and his sister said to have in the novel?

2. Who is the Consul that writes to the Members of the Council in the opening of Chapter 5: “A Heart Divided”?

3. What Shakespearean play is cited in the opening of Chapter 4: “To Be Wise and Love”?

4. What does Jem do with the medicine and the letter when he argues with Tessa in Chapter 7: “Dare to Wish”?

5. What month is it when the Institute’s carriage rolls into the gates of Lightwood House in Chapter 2: “The Conqueror Worm”?

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