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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jem do with the medicine and the letter when he argues with Tessa in Chapter 7: “Dare to Wish”?
(a) He throws them into the fireplace.
(b) He swallows both of them.
(c) He throws them into the river.
(d) He stomps on them.

2. What revelation does Will confess to Jem in Chapter 11: “Fearful of the Night”?
(a) That he is responsible for Mortmain’s existence.
(b) That he is planning on marrying Tessa.
(c) That he killed Jem's father.
(d) That he is in love with Tessa.

3. 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) “Water.”
(c) “Plastic.”
(d) “Silk.”

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

5. Who is the Consul that writes to the Members of the Council in the opening of Chapter 5: “A Heart Divided”?
(a) Benedict Lightwood.
(b) Josiah Wayland.
(c) Mortmain.
(d) Victor Whitelaw.

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

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

8. What is the name of Aloysius Starkweather’s granddaughter whom he is comforting in the novel’s Prologue?
(a) Tessa Starkweather.
(b) Adele Starkweather.
(c) Tatiana Starkweather.
(d) Adriana Starkweather.

9. Who is the author of “The Old Astronomer,” which is cited in the opening of Chapter 11: “Fearful of the Night”?
(a) Edgar Allen Poe.
(b) Algernon Charles Swinburne.
(c) Sarah Williams.
(d) John Milton.

10. The seamstress says in the beginning of Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row” that what month is “a fortuitous time for a marriage”?
(a) August.
(b) September.
(c) June.
(d) December.

11. Who is believed to be buying up all of the demon drug that Jem needs to survive in Chapter 5: “A Heart Divided”?
(a) Tatiana Blackthorn.
(b) Mortmain.
(c) Yanluo.
(d) Josiah Wayland.

12. The folk rhyme that opens Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row” begins with the line “Marry on Monday for” what?
(a) “Health.”
(b) “Loss.”
(c) “Children.”
(d) “Love.”

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

14. Where does Jessamine say Mortmain is as she dies in Chapter 9: “Graven in Metal”?
(a) Enkeli.
(b) Idris.
(c) Chriswick.
(d) The York Institute.

15. What day is described as “no luck at all” for marrying in the folk rhyme that opens Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row”?
(a) Thursday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Friday.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The note that is sent to Tessa’s room says for Tessa to meet the author in what room of the Institute in Chapter 8: “That Fire of Fire”?

3. What color hair are Will and his sister said to have in the novel?

4. Whose carriage is described drawn up by the steps of Lightwood House when Tessa and the others arrive in Chapter 2: “The Conqueror Worm”?

5. 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”?

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