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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. Who is the Consul that writes to the Members of the Council in the opening of Chapter 5: “A Heart Divided”?
(a) Josiah Wayland.
(b) Mortmain.
(c) Benedict Lightwood.
(d) Victor Whitelaw.

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) His cloak of invisibility.
(c) His Seraph blade.
(d) The Carstairs family ring.

3. What is the term used in the novel to refer to beings that are said to be part human and part demon, or the demonic counterpart of Shadowhunters, who are part human and part Angel?
(a) Downworlders.
(b) Mundanes.
(c) Vampires.
(d) Otherworlders.

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

5. The literary citation that opens Chapter 9: “Graven in Metal” is from the epic poem Paradise Lost. Who wrote this literary work?
(a) Lord Byron.
(b) Algernon Charles Swinburne.
(c) Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(d) John Milton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the Consul say in Chapter 6: “Let Darkness” “was one of the strictest men I’ve known, and though he ran the Institute according to the Law, it was a cold, unwelcoming place”?

2. Aloysius Starkweather tells his granddaughter before the ceremony in the Prologue, “Your first Marks mean you are Nephilim, like me, like your mother and father. They mean you are part of” what?

3. Will tells Cecily in Chapter 11: “Fearful of the Night,” “If I had not been a Shadowhunter, I would have had a future” where?

4. Who is the author of “Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady,” which is excerpted in the opening of Chapter 12: “Ghosts on the Road”?

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

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

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

4. What is the back-story of Mrs. Black in The Infernal Devices trilogy?

5. 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?

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

7. How is the character of Victor Whitelaw described in the narrative? What is his position?

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

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

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

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