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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old are Tessa and Jem as they are about to wed in Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row”?
(a) 16 and 17.
(b) 18 and 19.
(c) 17 and 18.
(d) 15 and 16.

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

3. The letter to the Consul at the end of Chapter 5: “A Heart Divided” is from what Inquisitor?
(a) Gideon Lightwood.
(b) Woosley Scott.
(c) Aloysius Starkweather.
(d) Victor Whitelaw.

4. Who is the author of Confessions: Book IV from which the excerpt is taken which opens Chapter 10: “Like Water upon Sand”?
(a) Saint Augustine.
(b) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(c) Algernon Charles Swinburne.
(d) Edgar Allen Poe.

5. The letter to the Consul from Gabriel and Gideon which opens Chapter 7: “Dare to Wish” relates that the amount of money Charlotte Branwell spends on what items “rivals the annual income of a large estate or small country”?
(a) Gloves.
(b) Coats.
(c) Hats.
(d) Shoes.

6. Who walks in on Gabriel and Gideon while they are looking through Charlotte’s correspondence in Chapter 8: “That Fire of Fire”?
(a) Charlotte Branwell.
(b) Sophie Collins.
(c) Tatiana Blackthorn.
(d) Tessa Gray.

7. What horse has Will taken with him from the London Institute in Chapter 12: “Ghosts on the Road”?
(a) Balios.
(b) Arthenon.
(c) Xanthios.
(d) Lucinda.

8. Gabriel claims in Chapter 6: “Let Darkness” to have killed the worm by putting an arrow through it where?
(a) Its heart.
(b) Its tail.
(c) Its eye.
(d) Its torso.

9. How long ago did Cecily come to the London Institute, according to the narrator in Chapter 7: “Dare to Wish”?
(a) 3 weeks ago.
(b) 8 weeks ago.
(c) 7 months ago.
(d) 2 years ago.

10. To what “notorious music hall and gentlemen’s club in Piccadilly Circus” does the Consul take Gabriel and Gideon in Chapter 6: “Let Darkness”?
(a) The Club Eremiel.
(b) Studio 54.
(c) The Argent Rooms.
(d) The Yin Fen Room.

11. In the opening of Chapter 2: “The Conqueror Worm,” the Institute’s carriage rolls through the gates of Lightwood House in what setting?
(a) York.
(b) Cadair Idris.
(c) Chiswick.
(d) Dublin.

12. What word from the novel refers to the most basic variation of healing rune used by Shadowhunters?
(a) Yanluo.
(b) Iratze.
(c) Eremiel.
(d) Enkeli.

13. What are the names of the two horses that Will finds in the stalls at the London Institute when he departs to go after Tessa in Chapter 11: “Fearful of the Night”?
(a) Balios and Excalibur.
(b) Balios and Xanthos.
(c) Tatiana and Yanluo.
(d) Arthenon and Balderas.

14. Charlotte tells the Consul in Chapter 6: “Let Darkness” that “Benedict Lightwood had been discovered to be in the last stages of” what?
(a) “Dementia.”
(b) “Astriola.”
(c) “AIDS.”
(d) “Cancer.”

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Gideon and Gabriel’s mother in the novel?

2. Who is the author of “Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady,” which is excerpted in the opening of Chapter 12: “Ghosts on the Road”?

3. In the letter that opens Chapter 5: “A Heart Divided,” it is said that Charlotte Branwell has given orders to have what spy recalled to the Institute upon her release from the Silent City?

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

5. Who is the Consul that writes to the Members of the Council in the opening of Chapter 5: “A Heart Divided”?

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