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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue and Chapters 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word in the novel is used to describe a secretive demon-hunting race of humans born with angelic blood that has survived for over a thousand years?
(a) Vampires.
(b) Shadowhunters.
(c) Mudanes.
(d) Ifrits.

2. What year is described in the opening of the Prologue?
(a) 1862.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1847.

3. 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?
(a) “The Automatons.”
(b) “The Clave.”
(c) “The New World Order.”
(d) “The Downworlders.”

4. How old are Tessa and Jem as they are about to wed in Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row”?
(a) 16 and 17.
(b) 15 and 16.
(c) 18 and 19.
(d) 17 and 18.

5. What word used in the novel refers to a pair of Nephilim warriors who fight together and are closer than siblings, regardless of their gender?
(a) Eremiel.
(b) Automatons.
(c) Parabatai.
(d) Mundanes.

Short Answer Questions

1. The title of Chapter 2: “The Conqueror Worm” is a literary allusion to a poem by what author?

2. Who does Jem say is downstairs “making the most dreadful row” in Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row”?

3. What color dress is Aloysius Starkweather’s granddaughter wearing in the novel’s Prologue?

4. The poem “Carrion Comfort” that is cited in the opening of Chapter 3: “To the Last Hour” was written by what English poet?

5. The folk rhyme that opens Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row” begins with the line “Marry on Monday for” what?

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