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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Balios.
(c) Xanthios.
(d) Arthenon.

2. What month is it when the Institute’s carriage rolls into the gates of Lightwood House in Chapter 2: “The Conqueror Worm”?
(a) June.
(b) September.
(c) October.
(d) November.

3. What musical instrument does Jem play for Tessa in Chapter 8: “That Fire of Fire”?
(a) Violin.
(b) Piano.
(c) Harp.
(d) Guitar.

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

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

6. Where is the location of Cecily and Will Herondale’s parents’ home?
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Wales.

7. Gabriel tells Cecily that Will once injured him how, in Chapter 10: “Like Water upon Sand”?
(a) He almost choked him to death.
(b) He broke his arm.
(c) He stabbed him in the heart.
(d) He broke his leg.

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

9. 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) Mrs. Black.
(b) Yanluo.
(c) Woolsey Scott.
(d) Mortmain.

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

11. The letter to the Consul from Gabriel and Gideon which opens Chapter 7: “Dare to Wish” relates that the amount of money Charlotte Branwell spends on what items “rivals the annual income of a large estate or small country”?
(a) Gloves.
(b) Hats.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Coats.

12. In the opening of Chapter 2: “The Conqueror Worm,” the Institute’s carriage rolls through the gates of Lightwood House in what setting?
(a) Chiswick.
(b) York.
(c) Cadair Idris.
(d) Dublin.

13. Gabriel tells the Consul in Chapter 6: “Let Darkness” that if he believes Gabriel to have committed patricide that he should feel free to take Gabriel where to be questioned?
(a) To Cair Paravel.
(b) To Chiswick.
(c) To the Council Chambers.
(d) To the Silent City.

14. What is the name of the medicine that Jem is in need of in Chapter 3: “To the Last Hour”?
(a) Opium.
(b) Yin fen.
(c) Iratze.
(d) Enkeli.

15. The literary citation that opens Chapter 9: “Graven in Metal” is from the epic poem Paradise Lost. Who wrote this literary work?
(a) Algernon Charles Swinburne.
(b) Lord Byron.
(c) Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(d) John Milton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 8: “That Fire of Fire” opens with an excerpt from the epic poem “Tamerlane.” Who is the author of this poem?

2. Who is the author of “Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady,” which is excerpted in the opening of Chapter 12: “Ghosts on the Road”?

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

4. Who is the author of “The Old Astronomer,” which is cited in the opening of Chapter 11: “Fearful of the Night”?

5. Charlotte tells the Consul in Chapter 6: “Let Darkness” that “Benedict Lightwood had been discovered to be in the last stages of” what?

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