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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue and Chapters 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color dress is Aloysius Starkweather’s granddaughter wearing in the novel’s Prologue?
(a) White.
(b) Black.
(c) Blue.
(d) Red.

2. Who does Jem say is downstairs “making the most dreadful row” in Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row”?
(a) Boadicea.
(b) Gabriel Lightwood.
(c) Gideon Lightwood.
(d) Will Herondale.

3. In the opening of Chapter 2: “The Conqueror Worm,” the Institute’s carriage rolls through the gates of Lightwood House in what setting?
(a) Dublin.
(b) Chiswick.
(c) Cadair Idris.
(d) York.

4. What is the name of Will’s sword that he uses in Chapter 2: “The Conqueror Worm”?
(a) Parabatai.
(b) Cadair Idris.
(c) Eremiel.
(d) Malik.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting that is described in the opening of the Prologue?

2. What does Jem give to Will to sell for money for his drugs in Chapter 4: “To Be Wise and Love”?

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

4. How old are Tessa and Jem as they are about to wed in Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row”?

5. 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?

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