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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 17, what does Alex use to get into Tara Hutchins's apartment?
(a) Merity.
(b) Starpower.
(c) A coin of compulsion.
(d) An enchanted compact.

2. In Chapter 12, what does Alex need from Wolf's Head?
(a) To use the house's temple so she could travel to the borderlands.
(b) To use the house's drug supply.
(c) To use the house's conference room for a seance.
(d) To use the house's liquor supply.

3. In Chapter 25, what does Dawes cook and bring to Black Elm to try to entice Darlington back there?
(a) Macaroni and cheese.
(b) Avgolemono.
(c) Pizza.
(d) Roast chicken.

4. What does Alex wear on her feet immediately after the murders at Ground Zero?
(a) Hellie's high heels.
(b) Hellie's sandals.
(c) Hellie's work boots.
(d) Hellie's pink plastic shoes.

5. What is one reason the police never consider Alex as a suspect in the murders at Ground Zero?
(a) She does not know how to fire a gun.
(b) She has an alibi.
(c) Her mother told police her daughter was not a murderer.
(d) She is not left-handed, but the murderer was left-handed.

6. In Chapter 12, what does Alex bring to Wolf's Head to entice them to help her?
(a) Starpower.
(b) A statue of Romulus and Remus that was stolen from Wolf's Head.
(c) Merity.
(d) A gluma.

7. In Chapter 14, what kind of slur does Blake Keely use towards Mercy?
(a) A derogatory word for a Native American.
(b) The "N" word.
(c) Chinese takeout.
(d) A derogatory word for a Hispanic person.

8. What does the Bridegroom tell Alex about what happened the day he died?
(a) He says he needs Dawes to look back through the library at Il Bastone to help find out what happened the day he died.
(b) He says he knows the maid servant killed his fiance and him.
(c) He says he killed his fiance but he is very sorry.
(d) He says he did not kill his fiance and he does not know who killed them both.

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

10. In Chapter 19, who appears in Alex's life before she comes to Yale that changes everything for the worse?
(a) Lance.
(b) Ariel.
(c) Her grandfather.
(d) Her father.

11. What kind of business did Tara Hutchins have on the side of her other activities?
(a) Jewelry-making.
(b) Painting.
(c) Knitting.
(d) Stained-glass working.

12. Who helps Len carry Hellie's body through the apartment?
(a) Mark.
(b) Eitan.
(c) Ariel.
(d) Betcha.

13. In Chapter 14, why does Alex feel guilty that she was not with Mercy at the party she said she would go to with Mercy?
(a) Because Mercy was recorded doing something very embarrassing there.
(b) Because Mercy got lost coming home.
(c) Because Mercy was missing after the party.
(d) Because Mercy was very drunk and she would not have been if Alex was there.

14. In Chapter 19, how does Alex discover Hellie has died?
(a) Len tells her.
(b) She goes to help Hellie with her shirt, and her arm passes through Hellie's body because she is a ghost.
(c) She sees Hellie floating near the ceiling as a Gray.
(d) Alex's mother tells her.

15. In Chapter 18, what do Alex and Darlington bring with them to the house they go to?
(a) Merity.
(b) A small puppy.
(c) A weather vane.
(d) A warm blanket and some wine.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 24, which House of the Veil needs a new tomb?

2. Why does Darlington's grandfather tell him to let him die?

3. In Chapter 18, what does Alex admit to Darlington?

4. Where does Alex go with Hellie the day that Hellie dies?

5. When the rite does not work, what does Alex realize at the end of Chapter 26 about what that means for Darlington?

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