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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 18, what does Darlington tell Alex someone has opened?

2. What do Hellie and Alex use as a murder weapon at Ground Zero?

3. What does Darlington's grandfather call Darlington's parents?

4. In Chapter 12, who taught Alex the move she uses at Wolf's head to get what she wants?

5. In Chapter 19, how does Alex discover Hellie has died?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 17, what does Alex use to get past the policeman at Tara's door?

2. In Chapter 19, what does Hellie's ghost ask Alex, and why does she ask her to do this?

3. In Chapter 13, when does Dean Elliot Sandow approach Danny about joining Lethe House?

4. In Chapter 19, why does Alex not want Hellie to go back to Len's apartment when he asks them to be there for the party?

5. In Chapter 21, what entices Bertram Boyce North, the Bridegroom, to stay with Alex while she undergoes her reversion?

6. In Chapter 13, what does the reader learn about Darlington's family?

7. In Chapter 21, what does Dawes do to heal Alex?

8. What was Alex's fantasy plan for herself and Hellie?

9. In Chapter 14, where does Alex realize she has seen the words in Tara's tattoo, "Rather die than doubt?"

10. In Chapter 20, what had Alex been planning on telling Darlington to explain her part in the murders at Ground Zero?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Drugs and alcohol play various different roles for Alex at different points in her life. At first, she finds they help her avoid her problems with seeing ghosts, or "Grays." Later, she becomes involved in dealing drugs with her boyfriend, and still later, as Dante, drugs and hallucinogenics take on other meanings for her. Write an essay exploring the different meanings drug take on for Alex throughout the novel, and explore her changing relationship with them.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay explaining the ways in which Alex feels as if she is caught between two worlds, and between her past and her present, as she adjusts to her freshman year at Yale and to her duties at Lethe House.

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