Chapter 10 City of Bones C (164- 171)

Question 1

Now the car looked like Cinderella’s _____, except instead of being pink and gold and blue like an Easter egg, it was black as ______

Answer 1

carriage; velvet

Question 2

With a quick gesture he raised his hands an ______________ his face

Answer 2

drew the hood back from

Question 3

She will have to come to the Bone City and ________ the Brotherhood

Answer 3

stand before

Question 4

As if _____, a narrow black cr with tinted windows _________________ to the curb and paused in front of Jace, engine purring

Answer 4

on cue; rumbled up

Question 5

and she realized tht what she had thought was a ______________ was a man

Answer 5

patch of darker shadow

Question 6

A personal ______ to the Bone City is nothing to ____ your __________

Answer 6

escort; tunr your nose up at

Question 7

Even his cloak, which should have _____, was silent

Answer 7

rustled

Question 8

On the black metal drivr’s _______________ sat Brother Jeremiah, holding a set of ______ in his lgoved hands

Answer 8

reins

Question 9

The man came toward them, his heavy cloak ______ as he moved, and Clary realized what it was about him that was strange

Answer 9

swirling

Question 10

It was long and _____ and low to the ground like a limousine

Answer 10

sleek

Question 11

The street were deserted except for a garbage turck _______________ down the block

Answer 11

trundling

Question 12

HIs face was hidden beneath the _____ of his parchment-colored robe

Answer 12

cowl

Question 13

The smell of blood and ink was ______. Clary felt a wae of panic

Answer 13

stifling

Question 14

Look at her hands. Jace gestured toward Clary, who ________ her fingers ____ to cover her injured palms

Answer 14

curled; in

Question 15

No I am Jace, said Jace patiently. Simon is the _______ little one with the bad haircut and __________ fashion sense

Answer 15

weaselly; dismal

Question 16

AS if on cue, a narrow black car with tinted windows runble up _____________ and paused in front of Jace, _______

Answer 16

to the curb; engine purring

Question 17

And I imagine she didn’t trust the Clave to __________

Answer 17

hold on to it

Question 18

The wheels were black, the leather ___________ all black

Answer 18

trimming

Question 19

Clary became aware of the sharp pains in her hands, and glanced down to see red lines ______________ her skin where her nails had __________

Answer 19

scored across; dug in

Question 20

ON the other end of the ____ were two horses, black as smoke, ________ and ______ the sky

Answer 20

reins; snarling; pawing at

Question 21

He fell back in his seat-____ and ____________________–and looked over at her

Answer 21

plush and glossily upholstered

Question 22

That’s enough. Jace’s voice cut through the winter chill, and the falling snow vanished, a shower of ________________. Clary’s eyes _________

Answer 22

white sparks; sprang open

Question 23

The robe itself was the color of ________, and the intricate _____ designs along the _____ and sleeves looked as if they had been inked there in drying blood

Answer 23

parachment; runic; hem

Question 24

She felt a pressure, a ___________ in her head and hands and fett. She clenched her hands, ________________ the weight, the blackness

Answer 24

drawing pull; straining against

Question 25

In a flash she saw an icy street, gray buildings loomning overhead, an explosion of whiteness ______________ her face ________________

Answer 25

stinging; in freezing particles

Question 26

They were standing ____ the corner outside the Insittute

Answer 26

on

Question 27

The Brothers keep records on all members of the Clave, explained HOdge. ______________ records

Answer 27

exhaustive

Question 28

Colors swirled up ______ the darkness behind her eyelids

Answer 28

against

Question 29

In front of them a yellow cab switched lanes, _____________ their forward progress. Clary _____, worried about the horses

Answer 29

cutting off; tensed

Question 30

A tall man in a heavy robe that _____ from neck to foot

Answer 30

fell

Question 31

When she blinked at him, she saw a _____ grin spread across his face.

Answer 31

wry

Question 32

Clary turned on him in some ___________. Look, I didn’t mean

Answer 32

exasperation

Question 33

The hood of the robe was _____, hiding his fac

Answer 33

raised

Question 34

Leaving the Institute was like climbing into a wet, hot canvas bag. Humid air ________ the city; turning the air to

Answer 34

pressed down on; grimy soup

Question 35

His lips were ________ with a pattern of dark ines that resembled surgical stiches

Answer 35

crisscrossed

Question 36

their soundless progression unnotice by the snarl of taxis, buses, and SuVs that ____________

Answer 36

choked the avenue

Question 37

I can’t help it. I use my ________ to hid my inner pain

Answer 37

rapier wit

Question 38

The archivist’s head was bald, smooth and white as an egg, darkly _______ where his eyes had once been

Answer 38

indented

Question 39

She tried to picture her mother fleeing under cover of darkness, with a big gold cup ______ in the pocket of her _____, and failed

Answer 39

stashed; overalls

Question 40

Sarcasm is the last refuge of the ______________________

Answer 40

imaginatively bankrupt

Question 41

She could feel the power in htem, jumping like static electricity to ________ her skin

Answer 41

sting

Question 42

She felt as if she were ______________ something hard and unyielding, being slowly crushed

Answer 42

pressed up against

Question 43

The crushing weight had gone, but she could feel the sweat that ________ her hair, _____ her shirt to her back like sticky tape

Answer 43

drenched; pasted

Question 44

It seems to me, Clary said with _______ to her voice; that no one the Clave thinks is dead is ever actually dead

Answer 44

an edge

Question 45

Brother Jeremiah nodded _____, and moved toward her with the soundlessness that sent chills up her spine

Answer 45

curtly