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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color dress is Aloysius Starkweather’s granddaughter wearing in the novel’s Prologue?
(a) Red.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Blue.

2. What does Sophie give Gideon to drink while he recovers in Chapter 10: “Like Water upon Sand”?
(a) Lemonade.
(b) Orange juice.
(c) Scotch.
(d) Posset.

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?
(a) Jessamine Lovelace.
(b) Adele Starkweather.
(c) Tessa Gray.
(d) Tatiana Blackthorn.

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

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

6. 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”?
(a) Alexander Pope.
(b) John Milton.
(c) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(d) Sarah Williams.

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

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

9. 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) Tatiana and Yanluo.
(b) Balios and Excalibur.
(c) Balios and Xanthos.
(d) Arthenon and Balderas.

10. 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) Edgar Allan Poe.
(d) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

11. 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) “Cancer.”
(c) “Astriola.”
(d) “AIDS.”

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. 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 the courtroom.”
(b) “In the church.”
(c) “In a lab.”
(d) “On the stage.”

14. What Shakespearean play is cited in the opening of Chapter 4: “To Be Wise and Love”?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Macbeth.
(c) The Merry Wives of Windsor.
(d) Troilus and Cressida.

15. What word from Chapter 6: “Let Darkness” refers to a dish consisting of cooked, flaked fish, boiled rice, parsley, hard-boiled eggs, curry powder, and butter or cream?
(a) Posset.
(b) Parabatai.
(c) Enkeli.
(d) Kedgeree.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

4. In the opening of Chapter 2: “The Conqueror Worm,” the Institute’s carriage rolls through the gates of Lightwood House in what setting?

5. The poem “Laus Veneris” that opens Chapter 5: “A Heart Divided” was written by whom?

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