1. In Sally Vickers' novel Miss Garnet's Angel, to which biblical angel does the title refer?

   1. Archangel Raphael

   2. Angel Gabriel

   3. St Peter

   4. an unnamed cherubic angel

2. Who do Angel Clare's family hope he will marry in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles?

   1. Tess d'Urberville

   2. Mercy Chant

   3. Marian the milkmaid

   4. Marianne Dashwood

3. In Dan Brown's Angels & Demons, what secret society is protagonist Robert Langdon a specialist on?

   1. the Freemasons

   2. Opus Dei

   3. the Bullingdon Club

   4. the Illuminati

4. In Skellig by David Almond, what numbers on a Chinese takeaway menu does Skellig memorise?

   1. 42 & 43

   2. 27 & 53

   3. 57 & 11

   4. none, they're taken from the number of a fish & chip shop

5. How does the Evil Angel in Dr Faustus describe hell?

   1. as unadulterated pain

   2. as eternal fire

   3. as a perpetual torture-house

   4. as an ever-lasting dinner with the in-laws

6. What is the name of Will and Lyra's guardian angel in Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials?

   1. balthazar

   2. beelzebub

   3. bruno mars

   4. balthamos

7. In John Donne's poem Aire and Angels, how many times has Donne's speaker loved thee?

   1. twice or thrice

   2. a few times

   3. only once

   4. every day

8. In Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Angel's Game, the Cemetery of the Forgotten Books is a bookshop called...?

   1. The Angel's Game

   2. Borgin & Burke's

   3. Sempere & Son

   4. Joseph and Son

9. In CS Lewis' The Great Divorce, a shiny figure meets our narrator on the foothills of heaven and becomes his mentor. On which author is this figure based on, and named for?

   1. George MacDonald

   2. WH Auden

   3. Mark Twain

   4. GK Chesterton

10. In The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald, at which fictional Cambridge college does Fred Fairly become a junior fellow?

    1. Pelby College

    2. St Angelicus College

    3. St Paul's College

    4. Brakespeare College

Solutions

1:A, 2:B, 3:D, 4:B, 5:C, 6:D, 7:A, 8:C, 9:A, 10:B

Scores

1. 0 and above.

   Surely you're a follower of Satan? Try again to get to heaven...

2. 4 and above.

   You're in purgatory! Try again to get to the foothills of heaven.

3. 8 and above.

   You really are a guardian angel!