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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the worst drug Alex ever tried because of the way it exacerbated her connections to Grays?
(a) Heroin.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Molly.
(d) Cocaine.

3. In Chapter 9, what does Dawes say attacked Alex?
(a) A Gray.
(b) A gluma.
(c) A living person.
(d) A banshee.

4. What does Darlington tell Alex about why Grays generally avoid cemeteries?
(a) They do not like the grass there.
(b) They do not like to be reminded of death or dying.
(c) They do not like to see the flowers there.
(d) They do not like priests.

5. Who is the leader of the prognostication ceremony?
(a) Melinda.
(b) The King.
(c) Amelia.
(d) The Haruspex.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 8, how does Alex convince the coroner to let her see Tara's body?

2. What is Darlington's code name within Lethe House?

3. In Chapter 7, what does Alex tell her mother about what happened at the butterfly sanctuary?

4. Which house performs the first rite that Darlington takes Alex to in Chapter 6?

5. Who was the Oculus that the bookcase at Il Bastone collapsed upon?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 7, what is the function and purpose of the Albemarle Book?

2. In Chapter 6, what does Darlington tell Alex about the reasons the dead in Grove Street Cemetery stay in their graves?

3. In Chapter 3, what scene from her past is Alex eerily reminded of when she views Tara Hutchins' body?

4. In Chapter 1, what does Alex know that the subjects of the prognostications all have in common?

5. What special gift does Alex have that is the main reason she was picked to work in Lethe House?

6. In Chapter 7, what happens to Alex at the butterfly reserve in seventh grade?

7. In Chapter 3, what is Alex's relationship with Centurion, Detective Abel Turner, like?

8. In Chapter 4, what does Darlington show Alex that astounds her and changes her body?

9. What is Pamela Dawes's job at Lethe House?

10. What is the first thing that goes wrong for Alex and Darlington during the Aurelian ceremony?

(see the answer keys)

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