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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom has Will summoned to the Institute to talk to about Jem’s condition and his futility to save him in Chapter 10: “Like Water upon Sand”?
(a) Josiah Wayland.
(b) Magnus Bane.
(c) Henry Branwell.
(d) Mortmain.

2. Who is the author of “The Old Astronomer,” which is cited in the opening of Chapter 11: “Fearful of the Night”?
(a) Edgar Allen Poe.
(b) John Milton.
(c) Sarah Williams.
(d) Algernon Charles Swinburne.

3. Gabriel tells his brother Gideon in Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row” that their father has contracted what illness?
(a) Vampiric cancer.
(b) Demon pox.
(c) Mundane influenza.
(d) Mundane epilepsy.

4. What historical figure is said to have set the fashion for marrying in white in Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row”?
(a) Boadicea.
(b) Queen Cleopatra.
(c) Queen Victoria.
(d) Sophie Collins.

5. Gabriel tells Cecily that Will once injured him how, in Chapter 10: “Like Water upon Sand”?
(a) He almost choked him to death.
(b) He broke his arm.
(c) He broke his leg.
(d) He stabbed him in the heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the demon that murdered Jem’s parents?

2. 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”?

3. The title of Chapter 2: “The Conqueror Worm” is a literary allusion to a poem by what author?

4. Where does Cecily spend the bulk of her time at the London Institute, according to the narrator in Chapter 7: “Dare to Wish”?

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

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