Q 01/05

What is Cassandra Clare's real name?

A) Cassandra Lewis

B) Cassandra Rumelt

C) Claire Judith

D) Judith Lewis

Answer · why

D) Judith Lewis

Judith Lewis. Born Judith Rumelt, she took her pen name from The Beautiful Cassandra, a Jane Austen story she had turned into an epic novel in high sc...

Q 02/05

How many novels make up The Mortal Instruments?

A) Four

B) Five

C) Six

D) Seven

Answer · why

C) Six

City of Bones opened the series in March 2007 and City of Heavenly Fire closed it in 2014.

Q 03/05

By what other name are the Shadowhunters of The Mortal Instruments known?

A) Downworlders

B) Seraphim

C) Nephilim

D) Mundanes

Answer · why

C) Nephilim

Nephilim. The books take the name from the Bible, where the Nephilim are often read as the offspring of humans and angels, because Shadowhunters carry...

Q 04/05

Which line is the recurring theme of Cassandra Clare's Shadowhunter books?

A) Blood is the answer

B) All the stories are true

C) Angels never sleep

D) Every Mark has a price

Answer · why

B) All the stories are true

All the stories are true. The line is the ground rule of Clare's world, and it is the reason vampires, werewolves, faeries and warlocks can all turn u...

Q 05/05

Where is Clary when she first sees Shadowhunters at the start of City of Bones?

A) The Hotel Dumort

B) The New York Institute

C) Central Park

D) The Pandemonium club

Answer · why

D) The Pandemonium club

The Pandemonium club. Clary follows a blue-haired boy into a storeroom and watches three teenagers kill him, then finds that the bouncer Simon fetches...

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