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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The title of Chapter 2: “The Conqueror Worm” is a literary allusion to a poem by what author?
(a) Lord Byron.
(b) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(c) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

2. What year is described in the opening of the Prologue?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1862.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1847.

3. Will tells Cecily in Chapter 11: “Fearful of the Night,” “If I had not been a Shadowhunter, I would have had a future” where?
(a) “In a lab.”
(b) “In the church.”
(c) “In the courtroom.”
(d) “On the stage.”

4. What does the figure in the carriage tell Tessa she was drugged with in Chapter 11: “Fearful of the Night”?
(a) Eremiel.
(b) Chloroform.
(c) Yin fen.
(d) Posset.

5. What is the term used in the novel to refer to beings that are said to be part human and part demon, or the demonic counterpart of Shadowhunters, who are part human and part Angel?
(a) Downworlders.
(b) Vampires.
(c) Mundanes.
(d) Otherworlders.

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

7. 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) Coats.
(b) Gloves.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Hats.

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

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

10. 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?
(a) Roderick Fairchild.
(b) Woosley Scott.
(c) Aloysius Starkweather.
(d) Victor Whitelaw.

11. What is the name of the medicine that Jem is in need of in Chapter 3: “To the Last Hour”?
(a) Opium.
(b) Iratze.
(c) Yin fen.
(d) Enkeli.

12. What word used in the novel refers to a pair of Nephilim warriors who fight together and are closer than siblings, regardless of their gender?
(a) Automatons.
(b) Mundanes.
(c) Eremiel.
(d) Parabatai.

13. Of the horses driving the second carriage that arrives behind Jessamine’s, Tessa notes in Chapter 8: “That Fire of Fire,” “their bodies gleamed not like the pelts of animals but like” what?
(a) “Metal.”
(b) “Plastic.”
(c) “Silk.”
(d) “Water.”

14. What is the name of the demon that murdered Jem’s parents?
(a) Mortmain.
(b) Iknibar.
(c) Jeremiah.
(d) Yanluo.

15. What book is Tessa said to be halfway through reading “and finding it an excellent distraction” in Chapter 8: “That Fire of Fire”?
(a) A Midwinter's Tale.
(b) A Tale of Two Cities.
(c) A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
(d) The Castle of Otranto.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Jessamine when she first came to the London Institute?

2. 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?

3. Gabriel tells the Consul in Chapter 6: “Let Darkness” that if he believes Gabriel to have committed patricide that he should feel free to take Gabriel where to be questioned?

4. What is the name of Aloysius Starkweather’s granddaughter whom he is comforting in the novel’s Prologue?

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

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