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

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

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

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

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 Downworlders.”
(c) “The Clave.”
(d) “The New World Order.”

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The folk rhyme that opens Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row” begins with the line “Marry on Monday for” what?

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

5. Whose carriage is described drawn up by the steps of Lightwood House when Tessa and the others arrive in Chapter 2: “The Conqueror Worm”?

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