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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. In Chapter 6, why are the Grays able to get into the circle of protection?
(a) The spell the Aurelians cast did not work.
(b) The building has a hole in the wall they can get through.
(c) Alex accidentally smudged part of the circle.
(d) The Grays are particularly powerful.

2. In Chapter 4, what does Darlington show Alex that amazes her?
(a) The sound system that plays songs that have not yet been written.
(b) The ceiling that becomes transparent.
(c) The ink-soaking moths that remove the tattoos from her body.
(d) The portal to the borderlands.

3. What is Alex's code name within Lethe House?
(a) Margin.
(b) Dante.
(c) Homer.
(d) Virgil.

4. What does Darlington tell Alex's roommates is his relationship to Alex?
(a) He is her cousin.
(b) He is her boyfriend.
(c) He is her best friend from home.
(d) He is her brother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alex tell Darlington about the Grays at the Aurelian ceremony in Chapter 6 that shocks Darlington?

2. What is the potion that makes it easier to see Grays called?

3. What will Alex later return to the operating theater that the prognostication took place in to do?

4. Why does Alex's professor tell her she cares about her in Chapter 5?

5. What had Darlington told Alex in the past was a danger of forming eye contact with a Gray?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 1, what unwelcome news does Dawes deliver to Alex?

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

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

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

5. In Chapter 8, why does Alex ask Dawes to go with her to the morgue?

6. In Chapter 3, how does Alex get the coroner on the scene of the murder to let her see the body?

7. In Chapter 6, what does Alex do that finally seems to stem the rush of Grays?

8. In Chapter 6, what happens to Darlington when he ingests the orozcerio, and what is the elixir for?

9. In Chapter 5, why is Alex so vigilant about showering after her activities that put her in contact with the Veil?

10. Why does Darlington tell Alex not to make eye contact with a Gray or to look to long at a Gray?

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