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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Will says to Cecily in Chapter 10: “Like Water upon Sand” that he came to the London Institute on what day when he was twelve?
(a) November 10.
(b) September 14.
(c) December 8.
(d) November 21.

3. What village does Will hope to reach by nightfall in Chapter 12: “Ghosts on the Road”?
(a) Hockliffe.
(b) Chiswick.
(c) Bedfordshire.
(d) Cwn Annwn.

4. Gabriel tells his brother Gideon in Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row” that their father has contracted what illness?
(a) Mundane epilepsy.
(b) Vampiric cancer.
(c) Demon pox.
(d) Mundane influenza.

5. 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) “May the wind be always at your back, fair brother.”
(b) “Forever and ever, my brother, hail and farewell.”
(c) “Brothers in arms, brothers in souls.”
(d) “Loyalty forever, and nobility for all time.”

6. Charlotte tells the Consul in Chapter 6: “Let Darkness” that “Benedict Lightwood had been discovered to be in the last stages of” what?
(a) “AIDS.”
(b) “Cancer.”
(c) “Dementia.”
(d) “Astriola.”

7. What is the name of the horse that Will had grown up riding and had to sell in Staffordshire because he didn’t have money for toll roads, according to the narrator in Chapter 12: “Ghosts on the Road”?
(a) Hengroen.
(b) Xanthios.
(c) Balios.
(d) Arthenon.

8. 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 Automatons.”
(d) “The New World Order.”

9. Will stands overlooking the placid countryside of what location in the opening of Chapter 12: “Ghosts on the Road”?
(a) Bedfordshire.
(b) Cair Paravel.
(c) York.
(d) Chiswick.

10. What gemstone is described in the necklace that Will has given Cecily before departing the London Institute in Chapter 12: “Ghosts on the Road”?
(a) Garnet.
(b) Sapphire.
(c) Ruby.
(d) Emerald.

11. What revelation does Will confess to Jem in Chapter 11: “Fearful of the Night”?
(a) That he is in love with Tessa.
(b) That he killed Jem's father.
(c) That he is responsible for Mortmain’s existence.
(d) That he is planning on marrying Tessa.

12. What horse has Will taken with him from the London Institute in Chapter 12: “Ghosts on the Road”?
(a) Lucinda.
(b) Xanthios.
(c) Balios.
(d) Arthenon.

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

14. How old is Will Herondale in 1873 in the novel’s Prologue?
(a) 12.
(b) 10.
(c) 8.
(d) 9.

15. Of the horses driving the second carriage that arrives behind Jessamine’s, Tessa notes in Chapter 8: “That Fire of Fire,” “their bodies gleamed not like the pelts of animals but like” what?
(a) “Plastic.”
(b) “Metal.”
(c) “Silk.”
(d) “Water.”

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Jessamine when she first came to the London Institute?

2. What book is Tessa said to be halfway through reading “and finding it an excellent distraction” in Chapter 8: “That Fire of Fire”?

3. What color hair are Will and his sister said to have in the novel?

4. What day is described as “no luck at all” for marrying in the folk rhyme that opens Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row”?

5. Gabriel claims in Chapter 6: “Let Darkness” to have killed the worm by putting an arrow through it where?

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