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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

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

2. Gabriel claims in Chapter 6: “Let Darkness” to have killed the worm by putting an arrow through it where?
(a) Its heart.
(b) Its eye.
(c) Its torso.
(d) Its tail.

3. The letter to the Consul at the end of Chapter 5: “A Heart Divided” is from what Inquisitor?
(a) Victor Whitelaw.
(b) Woosley Scott.
(c) Aloysius Starkweather.
(d) Gideon Lightwood.

4. By what name does Tessa call the black-cloaked automaton that corners her during the battle in the beginning of Chapter 9: “Graven in Metal”?
(a) Yanluo.
(b) Woolsey Scott.
(c) Mortmain.
(d) Mrs. Black.

5. Who does the Consul say in Chapter 6: “Let Darkness” “was one of the strictest men I’ve known, and though he ran the Institute according to the Law, it was a cold, unwelcoming place”?
(a) Woosley Scott.
(b) Granville Fairchild.
(c) Victor Whitelaw.
(d) Benedict Lightwood.

6. What is the name of the cat that lives at the London Institute and that surprises Jem and Tessa as they embrace in Chapter 8: “That Fire of Fire”?
(a) Mortmain.
(b) Felix.
(c) Church.
(d) Yanluo.

7. What word from Chapter 6: “Let Darkness” refers to a dish consisting of cooked, flaked fish, boiled rice, parsley, hard-boiled eggs, curry powder, and butter or cream?
(a) Kedgeree.
(b) Parabatai.
(c) Enkeli.
(d) Posset.

8. What is the name of Gabriel and Gideon Lightwood’s father in the novel?
(a) Abraham Lightwood.
(b) Abel Lightwood.
(c) Benedict Lightwood.
(d) James Lightwood.

9. When Will departs the unconscious and dying Jem in Chapter 10: “Like Water upon Sand,” he says “Atque in pepetuum, frater, ave atque vale.” What does this Latin phrase translate to in English?
(a) “Forever and ever, my brother, hail and farewell.”
(b) “May the wind be always at your back, fair brother.”
(c) “Loyalty forever, and nobility for all time.”
(d) “Brothers in arms, brothers in souls.”

10. What Shakespearean play is cited in the opening of Chapter 4: “To Be Wise and Love”?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Troilus and Cressida.
(c) The Merry Wives of Windsor.
(d) Macbeth.

11. What is the Welsh name for the “Hounds of the Underworld” described in Chapter 10: “Like Water upon Sand”?
(a) Cwn Annwn.
(b) Iratze Enkeli.
(c) Malik Anrym.
(d) Eremiel llyn.

12. Who does Jem say is downstairs “making the most dreadful row” in Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row”?
(a) Boadicea.
(b) Gideon Lightwood.
(c) Gabriel Lightwood.
(d) Will Herondale.

13. Who is believed to be buying up all of the demon drug that Jem needs to survive in Chapter 5: “A Heart Divided”?
(a) Josiah Wayland.
(b) Yanluo.
(c) Tatiana Blackthorn.
(d) Mortmain.

14. The note that is sent to Tessa’s room says for Tessa to meet the author in what room of the Institute in Chapter 8: “That Fire of Fire”?
(a) The underground lab.
(b) The music room.
(c) The kitchen.
(d) The training room.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jessamine say Mortmain is as she dies in Chapter 9: “Graven in Metal”?

2. Where is the location of Cecily and Will Herondale’s parents’ home?

3. What color is Tessa Gray’s wedding dress said to be in Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row”?

4. What is the name of the seamstress working on Tessa’s wedding dress in Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row”?

5. What is the name of Will Herondale’s sister with whom he speaks in Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row”?

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