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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Tessa transforms into the angel in Chapter 21: “Burning Gold,” she grows until she towers over Mortmain at how many feet tall?
(a) 30.
(b) 10.
(c) 20.
(d) 15.

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?
(a) “York.”
(b) “Dolgellau.”
(c) “Dublin.”
(d) “Chiswick.”

4. Who is the author of the poem “Lady Clara Vere de Vere,” which is cited in the opening of Chapter 17: “Only Noble to be Good”?
(a) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(b) Emily Dickinson.
(c) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

5. 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 head of the New York Institute.
(b) An offer for Charlotte to become Consul.
(c) A demand that Charlotte divorce her husband.
(d) A demand that Charlotte depart her position as head of the London Institute.

6. Who is in the process of developing a transportation device in Chapter 17: “Only Noble to be Good”?
(a) Benedict Lightwood.
(b) Tatiana Blackthorn.
(c) Henry Branwell.
(d) Mortmain.

7. 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.

8. While Will reads poetry to Henry in Chapter 22: “Thunder in the Trumpet,” Henry spends his time scribbling down designs for what?
(a) A fearlessness rune.
(b) A strength rune.
(c) A clockwork princess.
(d) A wheelchair.

9. 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) “The White Queen.”
(b) “Desperado.”
(c) “The Virgin Queen.”
(d) “Gloriana.”

10. Aloysius Starkweather tells Charlotte in Chapter 15: “Stars, Hide Your Fires,” “In her infancy my granddaughter was replaced with a kidnapped human child, a sickly creature who died when the Marks were applied, because she was not” what?
(a) “Nephilim.”
(b) “A vampire.”
(c) “A werewolf.”
(d) “A Downworlder.”

11. When Will greets Tessa in Chapter 19: “To Lie and Burn,” she is said to smell of smoke and what?
(a) Jasmine water.
(b) Violet water.
(c) Daisy water.
(d) Rose water.

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

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

14. What room at the London Institute is said to be the one that most reminds Will of Jem in Chapter 23: “Than Any Evil”?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) The training room.
(c) The underground laboratory.
(d) The study.

15. Who is the author of the poem “Jerusalem,” which opens Chapter 21: “Burning Gold”?
(a) Alexander Pope.
(b) William Shakespeare.
(c) William Blake.
(d) Sarah Williams.

Short Answer Questions

1. The quote that opens Chapter 24: “The Measure of Love” is attributed to whom?

2. According to Aloysius Starkweather’s story in Chapter 15: “Stars, Hide Your Fires,” he is related to Tessa Gray how?

3. 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”?

4. Who saves Will from the automaton when his Seraph blade dissolves outside the inn in Chapter 18: “For This Alone”?

5. The sword that is offered to Will by Jem’s uncle in Chapter 24: “The Measure of Love” is inscribed with a name. What is the name on the sword?

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