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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. Whose carriage is described drawn up by the steps of Lightwood House when Tessa and the others arrive in Chapter 2: “The Conqueror Worm”?
(a) Tatiana Blackthorn’s.
(b) Josiah Wayland's.
(c) Aloysius Starkweather’s.
(d) Mortmain's.

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

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

4. What color hair are Will and his sister said to have in the novel?
(a) Blonde.
(b) Black.
(c) Silver.
(d) Auburn.

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?
(a) “The Automatons.”
(b) “The Clave.”
(c) “The New World Order.”
(d) “The Downworlders.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What historical figure is said to have set the fashion for marrying in white in Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row”?

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

3. What is the name of Gabriel and Gideon Lightwood’s father in the novel?

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

5. The poem “Carrion Comfort” that is cited in the opening of Chapter 3: “To the Last Hour” was written by what English poet?

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