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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) “No Worse, There Is None.”
(b) “To a Silent Passing Wave.”
(c) “Tomorrow’s Shadows and Yesterday’s Years.”
(d) “Elegy for John Keats.”

2. What does Jem ask Charlotte to bring him when she comes into his room as Sophie leaves in Chapter 13: “The Mind Has Mountains”?
(a) His violin.
(b) His piano.
(c) His cello.
(d) His harp.

3. Who is the author of “The Harlot’s House,” which is excerpted in the opening of Chapter 20: “The Infernal Devices”?
(a) Charlotte Bronte.
(b) Oscar Wilde.
(c) Alexander Pope.
(d) John Milton.

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

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

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

7. What is the name of Tessa’s brother who died in her arms?
(a) Andrew Gray.
(b) Nate Gray.
(c) Nicholas Gray.
(d) James Gray.

8. Cecily states in her letter to her parents in Chapter 17: “Only Noble to be Good,” “Glory. Such an odd word, something women are not supposed to want, but is not our queen triumphant? Was not Queen Bess called” what?
(a) “Desperado.”
(b) “The Virgin Queen.”
(c) “The White Queen.”
(d) “Gloriana.”

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

10. Tessa asks Mortmain in Chapter 18: “For This Alone,” “How long has it been since you have seen that you have” what?
(a) “A wife.”
(b) “A brain.”
(c) “A heart.”
(d) “A soul.”

11. What is the name of the goddess that is depicted on the box that held Jem’s medicine, as revealed by Jem in Chapter 23: “Than Any Evil”?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) Kwan Yin.
(c) Daphne.
(d) Phoebe.

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

13. Who is the author of “Laus Veneris,” which is cited in the opening of Chapter 22: “Thunder in the Trumpet”?
(a) Sarah Williams.
(b) John Milton.
(c) Algernon Charles Swinburne.
(d) Gerard Manley Hopkins.

14. The letter that Charlotte has sitting on her desk from the Council reveals what information in Chapter 22: “Thunder in the Trumpet”?
(a) An offer for Charlotte to become Consul.
(b) An offer for Charlotte to become head of the New York Institute.
(c) A demand that Charlotte divorce her husband.
(d) A demand that Charlotte depart her position as head of the London Institute.

15. 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) A Tale of Two Cities.
(c) David Copperfield.
(d) Macbeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose ghost appears to Will in Chapter 24: “The Measure of Love”?

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. Jem makes Tessa a promise in Chapter 23: “Than Any Evil” that every year on one day he will meet her where?

4. The angel that appears when Tessa throws down her clockwork angel tells her that his name was what before he was imprisoned in the object, in Chapter 18: “For This Alone”?

5. Where at the London Institute does Gabriel find Cecily and kiss her in Chapter 22: “Thunder in the Trumpet”?

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