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

2. The seamstress says in the beginning of Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row” that what month is “a fortuitous time for a marriage”?
(a) August.
(b) June.
(c) December.
(d) September.

3. What day is described as “no luck at all” for marrying in the folk rhyme that opens Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row”?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Thursday.

4. What color dress is Aloysius Starkweather’s granddaughter wearing in the novel’s Prologue?
(a) Blue.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) Red.

5. What is the name of Will Herondale’s sister with whom he speaks in Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row”?
(a) Adele Herondale.
(b) Tatiana Herondale.
(c) Cecily Herondale.
(d) Charlotte Herondale.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Aloysius Starkweather’s granddaughter whom he is comforting in the novel’s Prologue?

2. What is the setting that is described in the opening of the Prologue?

3. What does Jem give to Will to sell for money for his drugs in Chapter 4: “To Be Wise and Love”?

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

5. Whose carriage is described drawn up by the steps of Lightwood House when Tessa and the others arrive in Chapter 2: “The Conqueror Worm”?

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