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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. The seamstress says in the beginning of Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row” that what month is “a fortuitous time for a marriage”?
(a) August.
(b) June.
(c) December.
(d) September.

2. What word used in the novel refers to a pair of Nephilim warriors who fight together and are closer than siblings, regardless of their gender?
(a) Automatons.
(b) Eremiel.
(c) Mundanes.
(d) Parabatai.

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

4. What was the name of Gideon and Gabriel’s mother in the novel?
(a) Barbara Lightwood.
(b) Muriel Lightwood.
(c) Elizabeth Lightwood.
(d) Mary Lightwood.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What color dress is Aloysius Starkweather’s granddaughter wearing in the novel’s Prologue?

2. What is the name of Will’s sword that he uses in Chapter 2: “The Conqueror Worm”?

3. In the opening of Chapter 2: “The Conqueror Worm,” the Institute’s carriage rolls through the gates of Lightwood House in what setting?

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

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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