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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Gabriel and Gideon Lightwood’s father in the novel?
(a) Abel Lightwood.
(b) Abraham Lightwood.
(c) Benedict Lightwood.
(d) James Lightwood.

2. What is the name of Will’s sword that he uses in Chapter 2: “The Conqueror Worm”?
(a) Cadair Idris.
(b) Parabatai.
(c) Malik.
(d) Eremiel.

3. What color is Tessa Gray’s wedding dress said to be in Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row”?
(a) White.
(b) Gold.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

4. By what name does Tessa call the black-cloaked automaton that corners her during the battle in the beginning of Chapter 9: “Graven in Metal”?
(a) Mortmain.
(b) Woolsey Scott.
(c) Mrs. Black.
(d) Yanluo.

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

6. What character is referred to as a werewolf in the letter that opens Chapter 5: “A Heart Divided”?
(a) Tessa Gray.
(b) Jem Carstairs.
(c) Aloysius Starkweather.
(d) Woolsey Scott.

7. How old is Will Herondale in 1873 in the novel’s Prologue?
(a) 8.
(b) 9.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.

8. What month is it when the Institute’s carriage rolls into the gates of Lightwood House in Chapter 2: “The Conqueror Worm”?
(a) September.
(b) June.
(c) October.
(d) November.

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

10. When Will departs the unconscious and dying Jem in Chapter 10: “Like Water upon Sand,” he says “Atque in pepetuum, frater, ave atque vale.” What does this Latin phrase translate to in English?
(a) “Forever and ever, my brother, hail and farewell.”
(b) “Loyalty forever, and nobility for all time.”
(c) “May the wind be always at your back, fair brother.”
(d) “Brothers in arms, brothers in souls.”

11. Cecily tells Will in Chapter 10: “Like Water upon Sand” that she believes Mortmain has taken Tessa to what mountain range in Wales?
(a) Brecon Beacons.
(b) Snowdonia.
(c) Cair Paravel.
(d) Cadair Idris.

12. What does Jem give to Will to sell for money for his drugs in Chapter 4: “To Be Wise and Love”?
(a) The Carstairs family ring.
(b) His Seraph blade.
(c) The clockwork angel.
(d) His cloak of invisibility.

13. What color hair are Will and his sister said to have in the novel?
(a) Black.
(b) Auburn.
(c) Silver.
(d) Blonde.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The letter from the Consul that opens Chapter 6: “Let Darkness” says that the writer feels like what mythological prophetess?

3. The letter to the Consul at the end of Chapter 5: “A Heart Divided” is from what Inquisitor?

4. Who is the author of “The Old Astronomer,” which is cited in the opening of Chapter 11: “Fearful of the Night”?

5. What horse has Will taken with him from the London Institute in Chapter 12: “Ghosts on the Road”?

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