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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Alex go after the spirit badly wounds her in Chapter 9?
(a) Her dorm.
(b) Her mother's house in California.
(c) Hutch House.
(d) Il Bastone.

2. What will Alex later return to the operating theater that the prognostication took place in to do?
(a) Take down the curtains.
(b) Erase the chalk circle.
(c) Examine the recording of the rite.
(d) Sprinkle bone dust there to keep away the Grays.

3. In Chapter 7, who abandoned Il Bastone just before Lethe acquired it?
(a) Sandy Baker.
(b) John Anderson.
(c) John Madison.
(d) Harlow Quinn.

4. What does Alex tell Darlington about the Grays at the Aurelian ceremony in Chapter 6 that shocks Darlington?
(a) One of them asked her for a favor.
(b) Several of them touched her.
(c) One of the Grays was not fully dead.
(d) One of the Grays said he had information on a murder she is trying to solve.

5. Why does Alex's professor tell her she cares about her in Chapter 5?
(a) Alex is a talented artist and she likes Alex's work.
(b) Alex is clearly struggling and she struggled once herself.
(c) Alex appreciates fine food and wine, and so does the professor.
(d) Alex is hungry and she respects hunger.

6. Where does Alex tell everyone Darlington is when they ask in Chapter 1?
(a) He is doing an internship in New York City.
(b) He is visiting sick relatives.
(c) He is abroad in Spain for a few weeks.
(d) He is sick with the flu.

7. Who is the teacher who is kind to Alex in seventh grade when she first gets her period?
(a) Ms. Singer.
(b) Ms. Nardone.
(c) Ms. Rosales.
(d) Ms. Sandone.

8. In Chapter 8, what does Alex place on Tara's tongue to help her figure out who might have murdered Tara?
(a) A gold coin.
(b) A special elixir.
(c) A scarab.
(d) A sprig of thyme.

9. What is the center of the ceremony for the prognostication rite?
(a) A frog.
(b) An ancient tree.
(c) A live human body.
(d) A bumblebee.

10. What drug does Alex sometimes use to help herself get through exhaustion?
(a) Kick whiput.
(b) Marsol marinola.
(c) Basso belladonna.
(d) Pancholin.

11. How many Houses of the Veil are there, excluding Lethe House?
(a) 12.
(b) 8.
(c) 20.
(d) 4.

12. In Chapter 4, who was known as the Poet of Lethe?
(a) Cabot Collins.
(b) George Orwell.
(c) Hiram Bingham.
(d) Alfred Tennyson.

13. In Chapter 7, where does Alex ask Dawes to go with her?
(a) The hospital.
(b) The Beinecke Library.
(c) The courthouse.
(d) The morgue.

14. What happens to Alex in the bathroom at the butterfly sanctuary in seventh grade?
(a) She goes into a trance and speaks with a ghost's voice.
(b) She passes out from dizziness because she did not eat that day.
(c) She is sexually assaulted by a ghost.
(d) She is robbed by a group of girls from another school.

15. In Chapter 10, what does Darlington say happened to a girl who went to a Manuscript party once?
(a) She started writing books and would not stop to eat or drink, so she died.
(b) She thought she was a tiger and she was never unspelled.
(c) She started to become able to see Grays and she was driven insane.
(d) She went into a church and refused to come out, and she is still there.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 10, who does Alex dress up as for Halloween?

2. In Chapter 6, what do Darlington and Alex do together that causes a mess in the kitchen?

3. What color does the drug Merity turn one's tongue?

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

5. What reverses the magic Darlington shows Alex in Chapter 4?

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