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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. To what “notorious music hall and gentlemen’s club in Piccadilly Circus” does the Consul take Gabriel and Gideon in Chapter 6: “Let Darkness”?
(a) The Yin Fen Room.
(b) Studio 54.
(c) The Argent Rooms.
(d) The Club Eremiel.

2. Gabriel claims in Chapter 6: “Let Darkness” to have killed the worm by putting an arrow through it where?
(a) Its eye.
(b) Its tail.
(c) Its heart.
(d) Its torso.

3. The letter from the Consul that opens Chapter 6: “Let Darkness” says that the writer feels like what mythological prophetess?
(a) Hecuba.
(b) Daphne.
(c) Athena.
(d) Cassandra.

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?
(a) Posset.
(b) Parabatai.
(c) Kedgeree.
(d) Enkeli.

5. The poem “Carrion Comfort” that is cited in the opening of Chapter 3: “To the Last Hour” was written by what English poet?
(a) William Shakespeare.
(b) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(c) Edgar Allen Poe.
(d) Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the letter from Gideon and Gabriel to the Consul in Chapter 8: “That Fire of Fire,” it is stated that Mrs. Branwell is “in almost daily communications with” what great-uncle of hers?

2. What day is described as “no luck at all” for marrying in the folk rhyme that opens Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row”?

3. 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?

4. Will stands overlooking the placid countryside of what location in the opening of Chapter 12: “Ghosts on the Road”?

5. In the letter that opens Chapter 5: “A Heart Divided,” it is said that Charlotte Branwell has given orders to have what spy recalled to the Institute upon her release from the Silent City?

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

3. 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?

4. Describe Josiah Wayland’s history in The Infernal Devices series. What is Josiah’s position in the novel?

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

6. What happens when the Shadowhunter marks are placed on Aloysius Starkweather’s granddaughter in the Prologue?

7. 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?

8. What is the first setting described in the Prologue to Clockwork Princess? How is the setting described?

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

10. Where is Tessa being taken in Chapter 12: “Ghosts on the Road”? Why?

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