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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 color is Tessa Gray’s wedding dress said to be in Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row”?
(a) White.
(b) Gold.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

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

3. In the letter from Gideon and Gabriel to the Consul in Chapter 8: “That Fire of Fire,” it is stated that Mrs. Branwell is “in almost daily communications with” what great-uncle of hers?
(a) Aloysius Starkweather.
(b) Victor Whitelaw.
(c) Roderick Fairchild.
(d) Woosley Scott.

4. Who walks in on Gabriel and Gideon while they are looking through Charlotte’s correspondence in Chapter 8: “That Fire of Fire”?
(a) Tessa Gray.
(b) Charlotte Branwell.
(c) Tatiana Blackthorn.
(d) Sophie Collins.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The poem “Laus Veneris” that opens Chapter 5: “A Heart Divided” was written by whom?

2. Who is the cook at the London Institute that sings Irish folk ballads as she works?

3. What year is described in the opening of the Prologue?

4. 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”?

5. How old is Will Herondale in 1873 in the novel’s Prologue?

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