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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From whom has Charlotte received a letter from just before Aloysius Starkweather arrives in Chapter 15: “Stars, Hide Your Fires”?
(a) Woosley Scott.
(b) Josiah Wayland.
(c) Victor Whitelaw.
(d) Cecily Herondale.

2. What book does Will leave outside of Tessa’s room as a gift to her in Chapter 24: “The Measure of Love”?
(a) Huckleberry Finn.
(b) David Copperfield.
(c) A Tale of Two Cities.
(d) Macbeth.

3. Where does Tessa have a scar from where she burned herself the day she told Will she was engaged to Jem, according to the narrator in Chapter 18: “For This Alone”?
(a) Her right temple.
(b) Her left ankle.
(c) Her right hand.
(d) Her left hand.

4. What is the herbal concoction that Jem gives to Tessa in Chapter 23: “Than Any Evil”?
(a) Yin fen.
(b) Ayahuasca.
(c) Opium.
(d) Tisane.

5. What are the names of Cecily’s parents to whom she writes in Chapter 17: “Only Noble to be Good”?
(a) Benedict and Sarah Herondale.
(b) Edmund and Linette Herondale.
(c) Andrew and Samantha Herondale.
(d) Matthew and Christina Herondale.

6. What is the title of the poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, which is cited in the opening of Chapter 18: “For This Alone”?
(a) “To the Trees of Winter.”
(b) “In Memoriam A.H.H.”
(c) “Love to the Order Above.”
(d) “Yesteryear and Yesterday.”

7. From what Shakespearean play is the title of Chapter 15: “Stars, Hide Your Fires” derived?
(a) Troilus and Cressida.
(b) King Lear.
(c) Macbeth.
(d) Hamlet.

8. What novel does Tessa think of while speaking with Mortmain in Chapter 18: “For This Alone,” in which she imagines the characters of Lucie Manette and Sydney Carton?
(a) To Kill A Mockingbird.
(b) Gone With the Wind.
(c) The Merry Wives of Windsor.
(d) A Tale of Two Cities.

9. When Gabriel joins Cecily in the training room after the arrival of the Silent Brothers in Chapter 13: “The Mind Has Mountains,” he suggests they play what card game?
(a) Beggar My Neighbor.
(b) Texas Hold’em Poker.
(c) Bridge.
(d) Hearts.

10. When Tessa transforms into the angel in Chapter 21: “Burning Gold,” her skin is said to turn gold and tear apart. From where Tessa’s skin tears, what is said to leak from the wounds?
(a) Black oil.
(b) Silver streams of liquid.
(c) Blue blood.
(d) Golden ichor.

11. Who saves Will from the automaton when his Seraph blade dissolves outside the inn in Chapter 18: “For This Alone”?
(a) Armaros.
(b) Tessa Gray.
(c) Balios.
(d) Mortmain.

12. What automaton-creature apprehends and takes Tessa from the battle in Chapter 21: “Burning Gold”?
(a) Mortmain.
(b) Mrs. Black.
(c) Uriel.
(d) Armaros.

13. The Silent Brothers are said to be both the doctors and what of the Shadowhunter world in Chapter 13: “The Mind Has Mountains”?
(a) The deities.
(b) The cannibals.
(c) The priests.
(d) The destroyers.

14. Whose poetry is Will reading to Henry when Charlotte enters the study in Chapter 22: “Thunder in the Trumpet”?
(a) Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s.
(b) William Shakespear's.
(c) Percy Bysshe Shelley’s.
(d) John Milton's.

15. The poetic excerpt from “Lines: When the Lamp is Shattered,” which opens Chapter 16: “The Clockwork Princess” was written by whom?
(a) Sarah Williams.
(b) Alexander Pope.
(c) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(d) Algernon Charles Swinburne.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tessa asks Mortmain in Chapter 18: “For This Alone,” “How long has it been since you have seen that you have” what?

2. What is the name of the automaton that stands by Mortmain when he enters Tessa’s prison in Chapter 18: “For This Alone”?

3. As Cicely sits in the training room after being told that Charlotte has sent for the Silent Brothers in Chapter 13: “The Mind Has Mountains,” the narrator says “Part of her mind was there in the Institute, but the rest was with Will: on the back of a horse, leaning into the wind, riding hell-for-leather over the roads that separated London from” where?

4. The title of Chapter 13: “The Mind Has Mountains” is an allusion to what poem that is cited in the opening of the chapter by Gerard Manley Hopkins?

5. Who is the author of the poem “Jerusalem,” which opens Chapter 21: “Burning Gold”?

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