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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the boy with blue hair answer the bouncer's question?

2. What has Dorothea known about Clary's mother?

3. What is Eric's poetry like?

4. Where do Simon and Clary go for dinner?

5. What does Clary notice in Madame's Dorothea's apartment?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Clary find when she goes inside her apartment?

2. What does Clary encounter when she is searching for her mother and what does she do?

3. Why is Simon at Luke's house and what has he seen?

4. Who do both Clary and the blue-haired boy notice and where does the person go?

5. Why does Clary run home frantically?

6. What do Clary and Jace tell Hodge and how does he react to the mention of Valentine?

7. What happens when Simon gets to the room with the bouncer?

8. What happens when Clary gets home from the club and how does she respond?

9. Who does Clary notice following the girl and the blue-haired boy and what is disturbing about one of the boys?

10. Where do Clary and Simon go and who do they see in line in front of them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Titles often play a vital role in making a person decide to read a particular book. Discuss the following:

1. Fully explain why you think "City of Bones" is titled as such. Do you think it is the best title for the book? Why or why not? Can you think of a better title? Why would you choose it?

2. How important is a title in influencing you to consider reading a book? Explain your answer.

3. Do you think a title needs to have direct relevance to a book's content? Explain your answer.

4. Have you ever read a book that when you finished, you do not understand the relevance of the title? Does it discourage you from "trusting" that particular author again?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze the theme of growth in "City of Bones". Consider the following questions as you write: What characters are most concerned with growth? Why? What are some symbols of growth? Symbols of rigidity? What characters seem rigid?

2. Trace and analyze the theme of courage in "City of Bones". Which characters struggle with this issue? Why? Which characters seem to possess courage? Why?

3. Trace and analyze the theme of death in "City of Bones". Consider the death of Mike as an random act of nature and the death of Luis as the result of conscious violence. Consider also in your answer the death of innocence in Rick from the beginning of the book to the end.

Essay Topic 3

Characters are an integral and important part of almost all novels. Discuss the following:

1. Compare/contrast the characters of Clary and Isabelle. How are they similar? How are they different? Is there a flaw in each of their personalities? Be specific and give examples.

2. Compare/contrast the characters of Jace and Simon. How do they seem different? Which do you like more? Why? Which one seems more of a well-rounded character?

3. Thoroughly analyze how three of the secondary characters in "City of Bones" help drive the plot and what their contribution is to the storyline. Are any of the secondary characters unnecessary? Indispensable? Which of the secondary characters are likable? Which are either unlikable or even despicable? Be specific and give examples.

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