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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Chapters 12 - 18).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the drug Merity known as?
(a) The drug of strength.
(b) The drug of truth.
(c) The drug of service.
(d) The drug of hallucination.

2. In Chapter 9, what does Dawes say the corpse beetles will do to Alex?
(a) Make her tell lies.
(b) Drive her crazy.
(c) Make her heart stop.
(d) Eat her from the inside out.

3. What language is much of the prognostication conducted in?
(a) Sumerian.
(b) Greek.
(c) Arabic.
(d) Dutch.

4. What does the Bridegroom tell Alex about Darlington's whereabouts?
(a) Darlington is in limbo between the two worlds.
(b) Darlington has already passed through the borderlands and is now gone.
(c) Even the dead do not know where he is.
(d) Darlington is there, but he can not see Alex now.

5. How does Darlington pay the bills at Black Elm once his grandfather passes away?
(a) He becomes a freelance writer.
(b) He becomes a research assistant at Yale.
(c) He gets many different jobs, including service and landscaping jobs.
(d) He sells his plasma.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 18, where do Alex and Darlington go on the night he disappears?

2. Who is the detective Alex has to find at the crime scene in Chapter 3?

3. Whose car do Dawes and Alex use when they decide to go on their errand in Chapter 7?

4. Who does Alex meet through the kind girl at the food court that later changes Alex's life for the worse?

5. What does Dawes give to Alex in Chapter 12 for Alex to chew on when she wants to come back from the borderlands?

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