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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 swallows both of them.
(b) He throws them into the river.
(c) He throws them into the fireplace.
(d) He stomps on them.

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

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

4. 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 Xanthos.
(c) Balios and Excalibur.
(d) Arthenon and Balderas.

5. Who is the cook at the London Institute that sings Irish folk ballads as she works?
(a) Charlotte Branwell.
(b) Mortmain.
(c) Sophie Collins.
(d) Bridget Daly.

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

7. The poem “Laus Veneris” that opens Chapter 5: “A Heart Divided” was written by whom?
(a) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) Algernon Charles Swinburne.
(d) Algernon Charles Swinburne.

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

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

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

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

12. Where does Cecily spend the bulk of her time at the London Institute, according to the narrator in Chapter 7: “Dare to Wish”?
(a) The estate gardens.
(b) The training room.
(c) Her bedroom.
(d) The kitchen.

13. When Jem returns, bloody and injured after chasing the carriage with Tessa, he tells the other Shadowhunters that he lost them near where in Chapter 9: “Graven in Metal”?
(a) The Ganges.
(b) Chriswick.
(c) The Thames.
(d) Temple Bar.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Will’s sword that he uses in Chapter 2: “The Conqueror Worm”?

2. 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?

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

4. What is the name of the carriage driver of the London Institute?

5. What year is described in the opening of the Prologue?

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