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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What historical figure is said to have set the fashion for marrying in white in Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row”?
(a) Boadicea.
(b) Queen Victoria.
(c) Sophie Collins.
(d) Queen Cleopatra.

3. What is the setting that is described in the opening of the Prologue?
(a) London.
(b) Dublin.
(c) York.
(d) Wales.

4. How long ago did Cecily come to the London Institute, according to the narrator in Chapter 7: “Dare to Wish”?
(a) 7 months ago.
(b) 8 weeks ago.
(c) 3 weeks ago.
(d) 2 years ago.

5. What was the name of Gideon and Gabriel’s mother in the novel?
(a) Muriel Lightwood.
(b) Barbara Lightwood.
(c) Mary Lightwood.
(d) Elizabeth Lightwood.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The poem “Laus Veneris” that opens Chapter 5: “A Heart Divided” was written by whom?

4. 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”?

5. What month is it when the Institute’s carriage rolls into the gates of Lightwood House in Chapter 2: “The Conqueror Worm”?

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