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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. Where does Alex tell everyone Darlington is when they ask in Chapter 1?

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

3. Who is the student standing guard outside the prognostication in Chapter 1?

4. What language is much of the prognostication conducted in?

5. What is the main quarters of the Lethe House members, that acts as a sort of safe house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What story do Darlington and Alex spin for Alex's roommates to explain the large amount of time they spend together?

2. In Chapter 1, what is the purpose of the prognostication ritual Alex must attend?

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

4. In Chapter 9, what happens to Alex that leaves her badly injured?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay comparing and contrasting Alex's descriptions of, and feelings towards, Ariel and Blake Keely, citing specific references to the text to support your answers.

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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