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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what does Alex say in response to the detective's statement that she seems like a nice girl?

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

3. How is Darlington enchanted at the Manuscript House on Halloween?

4. What is the drug Merity known as?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 7, how does Mira, Alex's mother, handle Alex's problems?

2. In Chapter 8, what does Alex do to Tara's body to try to learn who murdered Tara?

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

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

5. In Chapter 2, what does Darlington tell Alex about what attracts and repels Grays?

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

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

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

9. In Chapter 10, what is Darlington's first inkling that some people can see things that he, and most others, can not?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When and why does Alex finally decide that she does not, and may not ever, feel truly safe at Yale University and in Lethe House? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay exploring Bardugo's treatment of the theme of survival through Alex's character and through Professor Belbalm's/Daisy Fanning Whitlock's character, citing specific references to the text to support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What kinds of ideas about society do you think Bardugo is trying to convey by having women's murders as the source of the great nexuses of power that each of the eight Houses of the Veil are built upon? Write an essay explaining your answer.

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