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

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

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

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

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”?
(a) Aloysius Starkweather’s.
(b) Mortmain's.
(c) Tatiana Blackthorn’s.
(d) Josiah Wayland's.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. In the opening of Chapter 2: “The Conqueror Worm,” the Institute’s carriage rolls through the gates of Lightwood House in what setting?

4. What is the name of Will’s sword that he uses in Chapter 2: “The Conqueror Worm”?

5. The seamstress says in the beginning of Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row” that what month is “a fortuitous time for a marriage”?

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