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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 18: “For This Alone,” the narrator compares Will to “Tristan watching across the Irish Sea for the ship that would bear” who back to him?
(a) “Daphne.”
(b) “Hecuba.”
(c) “Isolde.”
(d) “Cassandra.”

2. Who is the author of “In Nunhead Cemetery,” the poem that is cited in the opening of Chapter 19: “To Lie and Burn”?
(a) Sarah Williams.
(b) Charlotte Mew.
(c) Lord Byron.
(d) Alexander Pope.

3. The poem “Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats” which opens Chapter 14: “Parabatai” was written by whom?
(a) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(b) Edgar Allen Poe.
(c) Sarah Williams.
(d) Gerard Manley Hopkins.

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

5. What is the name of the automaton that stands by Mortmain when he enters Tessa’s prison in Chapter 18: “For This Alone”?
(a) Armaros.
(b) Enkeli.
(c) Yanluo.
(d) Eremiel.

6. The poetic excerpt from “Lines: When the Lamp is Shattered,” which opens Chapter 16: “The Clockwork Princess” was written by whom?
(a) Sarah Williams.
(b) Algernon Charles Swinburne.
(c) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(d) Alexander Pope.

7. While Will reads poetry to Henry in Chapter 22: “Thunder in the Trumpet,” Henry spends his time scribbling down designs for what?
(a) A strength rune.
(b) A fearlessness rune.
(c) A wheelchair.
(d) A clockwork princess.

8. Tessa recalls in Chapter 19: “To Lie and Burn” that when she first met Will, he claimed to be what hero from a storybook?
(a) Sir Arthur.
(b) Sir Gawain.
(c) Sir Willem.
(d) Sir Galahad.

9. Mortmain tells Tessa in Chapter 18: “For This Alone” that there is an old saying in China that states “A man may not live under the same Heaven with” whom?
(a) “The son of his enemy.”
(b) “The slayer of his father.”
(c) “The wife of his enemy.”
(d) “The destroyer of his dreams.”

10. From what Shakespearean play is the title of Chapter 15: “Stars, Hide Your Fires” derived?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Troilus and Cressida.
(c) Macbeth.
(d) King Lear.

11. Who is the author of “Laus Veneris,” which is cited in the opening of Chapter 22: “Thunder in the Trumpet”?
(a) Sarah Williams.
(b) John Milton.
(c) Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(d) Algernon Charles Swinburne.

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

13. The name of Charlotte’s unborn child has been determined as what in Chapter 24: “The Measure of Love”?
(a) Will.
(b) Charles.
(c) James.
(d) Johnathan.

14. What is the material called that is used to make steles and Seraph blades?
(a) Iratze.
(b) Armaros.
(c) Adamas.
(d) Yanluo.

15. Who writes a letter to Josiah Wayland, telling him to call forth a meeting of the Council, in Chapter 18: “For This Alone”?
(a) Victor Whitelaw.
(b) Mortmain.
(c) Adele Starkweather.
(d) Aloysius Starkweather.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Aloysius Starkweather’s story in Chapter 15: “Stars, Hide Your Fires,” he is related to Tessa Gray how?

2. Charlotte responds to Aloysius Starkweather’s story in Chapter 15: “Stars, Hide Your Fires” by saying that “the offspring of demons and Shadowhunters are” what?

3. Whose Ascension takes place in the beginning of Chapter 24: “The Measure of Love”?

4. What does Tessa see has left a mark on Will’s body “in the shape of a pale white star” after she has consummated her love with him in the end of Chapter 19: “To Lie and Burn”?

5. What is the name of Tessa’s brother who died in her arms?

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