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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay 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) Malik Anrym.
(c) Cwn Annwn.
(d) Iratze Enkeli.

2. 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 the courtroom.”
(b) “In a lab.”
(c) “On the stage.”
(d) “In the church.”

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

4. Who is the author of Confessions: Book IV from which the excerpt is taken which opens Chapter 10: “Like Water upon Sand”?
(a) Saint Augustine.
(b) Algernon Charles Swinburne.
(c) Edgar Allen Poe.
(d) Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the horses driving the second carriage that arrives behind Jessamine’s, Tessa notes in Chapter 8: “That Fire of Fire,” “their bodies gleamed not like the pelts of animals but like” what?

2. What word used in the novel refers to a pair of Nephilim warriors who fight together and are closer than siblings, regardless of their gender?

3. Gabriel claims in Chapter 6: “Let Darkness” to have killed the worm by putting an arrow through it where?

4. What word from Chapter 6: “Let Darkness” refers to a dish consisting of cooked, flaked fish, boiled rice, parsley, hard-boiled eggs, curry powder, and butter or cream?

5. To what “notorious music hall and gentlemen’s club in Piccadilly Circus” does the Consul take Gabriel and Gideon in Chapter 6: “Let Darkness”?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are the Silent Brothers and what is their role within Shadowhunter society?

2. How is the setting of Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row” described? During what time period is this chapter set?

3. Describe the history of Charlotte Fairchild in The Infernal Devices trilogy. How did Charlotte come to be head of the London Institute?

4. Where does Cecily Herondale tell Will she believes Mortmain is in hiding in Chapter 10: “Like Water upon Sand”? What has led to this conclusion?

5. What literary allusions are prominent in Chapter 8: “That Fire of Fire”?

6. What events take place when Jessamine’s carriage arrives at the London Institute in Chapter 9: “Graven in Metal”?

7. What happens to Tessa in the ending of Chapter 12: “Ghosts on the Road”?

8. Why does Consul Wayland insist on taking the Lightwood brothers with him to the Silent City in Chapter 6: “Let Darkness”?

9. How are “Shadowhunters” defined in the novel? When and where did they originate?

10. What is the second setting described in the novel’s Prologue? How is this setting described?

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