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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 name of the horse that Will had grown up riding and had to sell in Staffordshire because he didn’t have money for toll roads, according to the narrator in Chapter 12: “Ghosts on the Road”?
(a) Hengroen.
(b) Xanthios.
(c) Arthenon.
(d) Balios.

2. The poetic excerpt from “Lines: When the Lamp is Shattered,” which opens Chapter 16: “The Clockwork Princess” was written by whom?
(a) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(b) Alexander Pope.
(c) Sarah Williams.
(d) Algernon Charles Swinburne.

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

4. 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.

5. The literary citation that opens Chapter 9: “Graven in Metal” is from the epic poem Paradise Lost. Who wrote this literary work?
(a) Algernon Charles Swinburne.
(b) Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(c) Lord Byron.
(d) John Milton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Charlotte tells the Consul in Chapter 6: “Let Darkness” that “Benedict Lightwood had been discovered to be in the last stages of” what?

2. When Will awakens after having fled the inn following his battle and the discovery of Jem’s death in Chapter 15: “Stars, Hide Your Fires,” he is “on the rise of a green hill, just out of sight of” what road?

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

4. What does Sophie give Gideon to drink while he recovers in Chapter 10: “Like Water upon Sand”?

5. Gabriel tells his brother Gideon in Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row” that their father has contracted what illness?

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