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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. What was the name of the Bridgegroom's fiance?

2. Which Gray is with Alex and Dawes at the temple in Wolf's Head in Chapter 12?

3. 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?

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

5. In Chapter 19, what is the name of the place Alex lives with Len and Hellie?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do Alex and Hellie get rid of the physical evidence of the murders at Ground Zero?

3. In Chapter 20, what keeps Alex from being completely overwhelmed by the man in Tara's apartment?

4. In Chapter 18, what does Darlington guess about Alex's past that no one else has guessed at yet?

5. In Chapter 14, why does Alex have to go to Tara's apartment?

6. Once Alex is in the borderlands in Chapter 12, what does she have to do to reach the Bridegroom?

7. 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?

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

9. In Chapter 14, why does Alex feel guilty when she gets back to her dorm and realizes what has happened to her roommate Mercy?

10. In Chapter 19, what was Alex's impression of Ariel and how did it differ from what Len thought of Ariel?

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

Write an essay analyzing Bardugo's choice to write chapters that alternate between Alex's and Darlington's points of view up until the point at which Darlington disappears. What do you think Bardugo accomplishes by switching viewpoints, and what effect does this tactic have on the reader?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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