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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 8: “That Fire of Fire” opens with an excerpt from the epic poem “Tamerlane.” Who is the author of this poem?
(a) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(b) Lord Byron.
(c) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(d) Edgar Allen Poe.

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

3. Gabriel tells his brother Gideon in Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row” that their father has contracted what illness?
(a) Mundane epilepsy.
(b) Demon pox.
(c) Mundane influenza.
(d) Vampiric cancer.

4. 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 Argent Rooms.
(b) The Yin Fen Room.
(c) Studio 54.
(d) The Club Eremiel.

5. The title of Chapter 2: “The Conqueror Worm” is a literary allusion to a poem by what author?
(a) Lord Byron.
(b) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(c) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Gideon and Gabriel’s mother in the novel?

2. Charlotte tells the Consul in Chapter 6: “Let Darkness” that “Benedict Lightwood had been discovered to be in the last stages of” what?

3. What year is described in the opening of the Prologue?

4. What historical figure is said to have set the fashion for marrying in white in Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row”?

5. How old are Tessa and Jem as they are about to wed in Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row”?

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