Chapter 10 City of Bones D (172-180)

Question 1

then the carriage lurched upward as the horses sprang lightly to the top of the cab. She _______________

Answer 1

choked off a gasp

Question 2

The carriage, rather than _____________ the ground, _________ the horses

Answer 2

dragging along; sailed behind

Question 3

The carraige, rather than dragging aalong the ground, sailed up behind the horses, _____ lightly and soundlessly up and over the cab’s roof and down the other side

Answer 3

rolling

Question 4

Clary glanced backward as the carriage hit the pavement again _____________________–the cab driver was smoking and staring ahead, utterly oblivious

Answer 4

with a jolt

Question 5

The smile turned less ____

Answer 5

dry

Question 6

I suppose you don’t have much time for enjoying music, _________________

Answer 6

in your line of work

Question 7

From this ______ point she could see the upper floors of the old apartment buildings that ____________, elaborately carved with ______________ and ornamental ___________

Answer 7

vantage; line the avenue; gargoyles; cornices

Question 8

He sounds strict, your fataher.

Not at all. He _____ me

Answer 8

indulged

Question 9

Clary thought as the carriage _________________ the pavement

Answer 9

thunked back kdown to the pavement

Question 10

The ring she had noticed earlier ______ on his finger

Answer 10

flashed

Question 11

They were rolling through Astor Place now, narrowly dodging a purple \new York University ______ as it cut through traffic

Answer 11

tram

Question 12

Clary saw a girl about her own age with a smoothly shaved bald head leaning against a brown-skinned boy with _________________, his face adorned with a dozen piercings

Answer 12

dreadlocks

Question 13

They ____ a place to ashes and when it’s dead, they move on to the next one

Answer 13

drain

Question 14

as if he meant to indicate everything in the city from the skyscrapers uptown to the _____ of traffic on Houston Street–is the Nephilim

Answer 14

clog

Question 15

But only demons can travel between them. Because they’re mostly ________________

Answer 15

noncorporeal

Question 16

Nothing from EArth can pass through the _______________ between the worlds

Answer 16

wardings

Question 17

She felt the cool _____ of his ring like a silver of ice against her sweaty skin

Answer 17

impress

Question 18

Clary pulled away from him, her face _____ in hte darkness, and turned to look out the window

Answer 18

burning

Question 19

They wree rolling toward a heavy ______ gate, _____ with dark vines

Answer 19

wrought iron; trellised

Question 20

We are here, announced Jace as the smooth roll of wheels over pavement turned to the ______________

Answer 20

jounce of cobblestones

Question 21

His arm was lightly muscled and ______ gold hairs fine as ______

Answer 21

downed with; pollen

Question 22

The carriage had ____________________ on a wide square of green grass surroinded by mossy marble walls

Answer 22

drawn to a stop

Question 23

The carriage had drawn to a stop on a wide square of green grass surrounded by __________ marble walls

Answer 23

mossy

Question 24

He jumped down from the carriag.e Clray _____ to the edge of her seat; ____ her legs

Answer 24

slid; dangling

Question 25

It w as a __________ the cobblestones. She jumped. The impact _____ her feet, but she didn’t fall

Answer 25

a long drop to; stung

Question 26

Brother Jeremiah was descending from his _____ behind the horses in a ______________________. He cast no shadow on the ________ grass

Answer 26

silent fall of robes; sun-baked grass

Question 27

The grass was dry and ______ underfoot, the marble walls to either side smooth and ______

Answer 27

crackling; pearly

Question 28

It took Clary a moment to realize that they were ____________

Answer 28

grave markers

Question 29

A chill _____ her spine Where were the bodies? In the walls, buried ______ as if they’d been ________ alive

Answer 29

scraped up; upright; walled in

Question 30

When she collided with something unmistakably alive, she _____ out loud; it was Jace. Don’t ______ like that. You’ll wake the dead

Answer 30

yelped; screech

Question 31

a statue just slightly taller than he was, its base overgrown with _____

Answer 31

moss

Question 32

There was a date _____ on the base, 1234

Answer 32

inscribed

Question 33

with the tip he ____ the pattern of a rune on the statue’s base

Answer 33

traced

Question 34

The mouth of the stone angel suddenlly ____ wide in a silent scream; and a _____ black hole opened in the grassy _______ at Jeremiah’s feet

Answer 34

gaped; yawning; grassy turf

Question 35

Slowly Clary approached the dge of it and peered inside. ____________________ led down into the hole

Answer 35

a set of granite steps

Question 36

A set of granite steps ________ the hole

Answer 36

led down into

Question 37

—- were _____ the steps at intervals, ______ hot green and icy blue

Answer 37

torches; set along; flaring