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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-12.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The title of Chapter 2: “The Conqueror Worm” is a literary allusion to a poem by what author?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) Lord Byron.
(c) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(d) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
2. When Will departs the unconscious and dying Jem in Chapter 10: “Like Water upon Sand,” he says “Atque in pepetuum, frater, ave atque vale.” What does this Latin phrase translate to in English?
(a) “May the wind be always at your back, fair brother.”
(b) “Forever and ever, my brother, hail and farewell.”
(c) “Loyalty forever, and nobility for all time.”
(d) “Brothers in arms, brothers in souls.”
3. The letter from the Consul that opens Chapter 6: “Let Darkness” says that the writer feels like what mythological prophetess?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) Hecuba.
(c) Daphne.
(d) Athena.
4. What gemstone is described in the necklace that Will has given Cecily before departing the London Institute in Chapter 12: “Ghosts on the Road”?
(a) Garnet.
(b) Ruby.
(c) Sapphire.
(d) Emerald.
5. What character is referred to as a werewolf in the letter that opens Chapter 5: “A Heart Divided”?
(a) Aloysius Starkweather.
(b) Tessa Gray.
(c) Jem Carstairs.
(d) Woolsey Scott.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of Will Herondale’s sister with whom he speaks in Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row”?
2. 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?
3. What word does Cecily say means “lake” in Welsh in Chapter 10: “Like Water upon Sand”?
4. In the letter from Gideon and Gabriel to the Consul in Chapter 8: “That Fire of Fire,” it is stated that Mrs. Branwell is “in almost daily communications with” what great-uncle of hers?
5. What year is described in the opening of the Prologue?
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