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

2. What does Jem give to Will to sell for money for his drugs in Chapter 4: “To Be Wise and Love”?
(a) The clockwork angel.
(b) The Carstairs family ring.
(c) His Seraph blade.
(d) His cloak of invisibility.

3. The letter to the Consul from Gabriel and Gideon which opens Chapter 7: “Dare to Wish” relates that the amount of money Charlotte Branwell spends on what items “rivals the annual income of a large estate or small country”?
(a) Hats.
(b) Gloves.
(c) Coats.
(d) Shoes.

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

5. How old was Jessamine when she first came to the London Institute?
(a) 13.
(b) 15.
(c) 14.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. What character is referred to as a werewolf in the letter that opens Chapter 5: “A Heart Divided”?

2. What horse has Will taken with him from the London Institute in Chapter 12: “Ghosts on the Road”?

3. What is the setting that is described in the opening of the Prologue?

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

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. Describe the first letter sent by Gabriel and Gideon Lightwood to Consul Wayland in Chapter 7: “Dare to Wish.” What information is revealed in the letter?

2. What character is introduced to Will Herondale in the novel’s Prologue? How does this meeting go?

3. What item does Will find on his journey that leads him to believe he is on the right track in Chapter 12: “Ghosts on the Road”?

4. What is referred to by the term “automatons” in Clockwork Princess?

5. How is the character of Jem Carstairs described in the novel’s Prologue?

6. What confrontation takes place between Jem and Will in Chapter 11: “Fearful of the Night” What revelation is revealed?

7. How is the character of Will Herondale described in the novel’s Prologue?

8. Where does Consul Wayland actually take Gideon and Gabriel Lightwood in Chapter 6: “Let Darkness”? Why?

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

10. What is Aloysius Starkweather’s history in The Infernal Devices trilogy?

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