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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Welsh name for the “Hounds of the Underworld” described in Chapter 10: “Like Water upon Sand”?
(a) Eremiel llyn.
(b) Malik Anrym.
(c) Iratze Enkeli.
(d) Cwn Annwn.

2. To whom does Will write a letter to after he finishes dinner at the inn in Chapter 14: “Parabatai”?
(a) Victor Whitelaw.
(b) Jem Carstairs.
(c) Charlotte Branwell.
(d) Aloysius Starkweather.

3. The title of Chapter 13: “The Mind Has Mountains” is an allusion to what poem that is cited in the opening of the chapter by Gerard Manley Hopkins?
(a) “Tomorrow’s Shadows and Yesterday’s Years.”
(b) “No Worse, There Is None.”
(c) “To a Silent Passing Wave.”
(d) “Elegy for John Keats.”

4. Chapter 8: “That Fire of Fire” opens with an excerpt from the epic poem “Tamerlane.” Who is the author of this poem?
(a) Edgar Allen Poe.
(b) Lord Byron.
(c) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(d) Percy Bysshe Shelley.

5. Who is the cook at the London Institute that sings Irish folk ballads as she works?
(a) Mortmain.
(b) Charlotte Branwell.
(c) Bridget Daly.
(d) Sophie Collins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What estate does Cecily say Mortmain gave to her father when they lost their home near Dolgellau in Chapter 10: “Like Water upon Sand”?

2. The poem “In Memoriam A.H.H.” which is cited in the opening of Chapter 6: “Let Darkness” was written by whom?

3. Gabriel tells Cecily that Will once injured him how, in Chapter 10: “Like Water upon Sand”?

4. What word from the novel refers to the most basic variation of healing rune used by Shadowhunters?

5. To what “notorious music hall and gentlemen’s club in Piccadilly Circus” does the Consul take Gabriel and Gideon in Chapter 6: “Let Darkness”?

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