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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Welsh name for the “Hounds of the Underworld” described in Chapter 10: “Like Water upon Sand”?
(a) Eremiel llyn.
(b) Iratze Enkeli.
(c) Malik Anrym.
(d) Cwn Annwn.

2. Will says to Cecily in Chapter 10: “Like Water upon Sand” that he came to the London Institute on what day when he was twelve?
(a) November 10.
(b) November 21.
(c) December 8.
(d) September 14.

3. 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 broke his arm.
(d) He almost choked him to death.

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

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

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

7. 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) “On the stage.”
(c) “In the church.”
(d) “In the courtroom.”

8. 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) Mrs. Black.
(b) Mortmain.
(c) Woolsey Scott.
(d) Yanluo.

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

10. 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.

11. 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”?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) The training room.
(c) The underground lab.
(d) The music room.

12. 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) Sarah Williams.
(b) Alexander Pope.
(c) John Milton.
(d) Percy Bysshe Shelley.

13. 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) Yanluo.
(c) Josiah Wayland.
(d) Mortmain.

14. What is the name of the horse that Will had grown up riding and had to sell in Staffordshire because he didn’t have money for toll roads, according to the narrator in Chapter 12: “Ghosts on the Road”?
(a) Xanthios.
(b) Balios.
(c) Hengroen.
(d) Arthenon.

15. Gabriel tells his brother Gideon in Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row” that their father has contracted what illness?
(a) Mundane influenza.
(b) Demon pox.
(c) Vampiric cancer.
(d) Mundane epilepsy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What estate does Cecily say Mortmain gave to her father when they lost their home near Dolgellau in Chapter 10: “Like Water upon Sand”?

2. What Shakespearean play is cited in the opening of Chapter 4: “To Be Wise and Love”?

3. What word from the novel refers to the most basic variation of healing rune used by Shadowhunters?

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

5. What gemstone is described in the necklace that Will has given Cecily before departing the London Institute in Chapter 12: “Ghosts on the Road”?

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