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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of the poem “Lady Clara Vere de Vere,” which is cited in the opening of Chapter 17: “Only Noble to be Good”?
(a) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(d) Emily Dickinson.

2. Of Gabriel Lightwood, the narrator says in Chapter 20: “The Infernal Devices,” that “he had been trained in the longsword by a master who could trace his own masters back to” whom?
(a) Lichtenauer.
(b) Armoros.
(c) Yanluo.
(d) Aloysius Starkweather.

3. Tessa asks Mortmain in Chapter 18: “For This Alone,” “How long has it been since you have seen that you have” what?
(a) “A wife.”
(b) “A soul.”
(c) “A brain.”
(d) “A heart.”

4. The letter that Charlotte has sitting on her desk from the Council reveals what information in Chapter 22: “Thunder in the Trumpet”?
(a) A demand that Charlotte divorce her husband.
(b) An offer for Charlotte to become Consul.
(c) A demand that Charlotte depart her position as head of the London Institute.
(d) An offer for Charlotte to become head of the New York Institute.

5. What saves Tessa in her fall in the beginning of Chapter 13: “The Mind Has Mountains”?
(a) A rope lowered from a helicopter.
(b) A golden eagle.
(c) Her clockwork angel.
(d) A vampire bat.

6. What name does Will call out as he unsheathes his Seraph blade in Chapter 18: “For This Alone”?
(a) Armaros.
(b) Enkeli.
(c) Nakir.
(d) Eremiel.

7. Cwm Cau is described in Chapter 18: “For This Alone” as a small valley atop the mountain in whose heart rests what clear glacial lake?
(a) Eremiel.
(b) Llyn Cau.
(c) Iratze.
(d) Loch Enkeli.

8. Who is described as Mortmain’s father, or the “boy they found and trained up” to act as Mortmain’s father, in Chapter 15: “Stars, Hide Your Fires”?
(a) John Shade.
(b) Cyril Tanner.
(c) Benedict Lightwood.
(d) Henry Branwell.

9. Whose Ascension takes place in the beginning of Chapter 24: “The Measure of Love”?
(a) Cyril Tanner’s.
(b) Sophie Collins’s.
(c) Woosley Scott's.
(d) Victor Whitelaw's.

10. What object begins bleeding in Chapter 14: “Parabatai,” informing Will that Jem is dead?
(a) His Seraph blade.
(b) His parabatai rune.
(c) His wedding ring.
(d) His angel wings.

11. Jem is said to be a few weeks short of his birthday turning what age in Chapter 13: “The Mind Has Mountains”?
(a) 19.
(b) 18.
(c) 17.
(d) 21.

12. Aloysius Starkweather tells Charlotte in Chapter 15: “Stars, Hide Your Fires,” “In her infancy my granddaughter was replaced with a kidnapped human child, a sickly creature who died when the Marks were applied, because she was not” what?
(a) “A vampire.”
(b) “Nephilim.”
(c) “A Downworlder.”
(d) “A werewolf.”

13. Cecily states in her letter to her parents in Chapter 17: “Only Noble to be Good,” “Glory. Such an odd word, something women are not supposed to want, but is not our queen triumphant? Was not Queen Bess called” what?
(a) “Gloriana.”
(b) “Desperado.”
(c) “The Virgin Queen.”
(d) “The White Queen.”

14. The Silent Brothers are said to be both the doctors and what of the Shadowhunter world in Chapter 13: “The Mind Has Mountains”?
(a) The cannibals.
(b) The priests.
(c) The destroyers.
(d) The deities.

15. What is the name of the inn that Will arrives at in the beginning of Chapter 14: “Parabatai”?
(a) The White Wolf Inn.
(b) The Green Man Inn.
(c) The Grey Horse Inn.
(d) The Yellow Meadow Inn.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Cicely sits in the training room after being told that Charlotte has sent for the Silent Brothers in Chapter 13: “The Mind Has Mountains,” the narrator says “Part of her mind was there in the Institute, but the rest was with Will: on the back of a horse, leaning into the wind, riding hell-for-leather over the roads that separated London from” where?

2. Which of William Shakespeare’s plays does Will quote and then say is “Not one of the better plays,” in Chapter 24: “The Measure of Love”?

3. The automaton that accompanies Mortmain in Chapter 18: “For This Alone” says to Tessa, “I fought Johnathan Shadowhunter on the plains of” what location?

4. How old does Will say Cecily is in Chapter 24: “The Measure of Love”?

5. What are the names of Cecily’s parents to whom she writes in Chapter 17: “Only Noble to be Good”?

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