Chapter 5 A (page 56-62)

Question 1

Isabelle, you know it’s bad luck to talk about death __________

Answer 1

in a sickroom

Question 2

The dreams held her, one after the other, a river of images that ____________________ like a leaf tossed in a current.

Answer 2

bore her along

Question 3

She saw Luke, standing _____ a pile of bones

Answer 3

atop

Question 4

Is HOge going to _____ the Brothers

Answer 4

call on

Question 5

She saw clear blue sky above her, white puffy lcouds and chuby angels with _______________ trailing from their wrist

Answer 5

gilded ribbons

Question 6

This time she realized that what she was staring at was an arched wooden ceiling, painted with a _______________ of clouds and ____________

Answer 6

a rococo motif of clouds and cherubs

Question 7

her long jet-black hair _______________ two thick braids that fell past her wasit

Answer 7

wound into

Question 8

Sorry to disappoint you. Clary’s voice ______ like sand paper

Answer 8

rasp

Question 9

Yes. You’re in the _______, not that you haven’t figured that out already

Answer 9

infirmary

Question 10

Isabelle looked at her _________. ARe you okay

Answer 10

in alarm

Question 11

What is this?

Isabelle shrugged. One of HOdge’s _________

Answer 11

tisanes

Question 12

She slid off the bed, landing on the floor with a catlike _______________

Answer 12

arch of her back

Question 13

YOu got _____ and blood all over the carpet in the entryway

Answer 13

ichor

Question 14

Clary had to roll the _____ on the jeans up several times before she stopped tripping on them

Answer 14

legs

Question 15

and the ________________ of the red tank top only emphasized her lack of what ERic would have called a _________

Answer 15

plunging neckline; rack

Question 16

Drying herself with a white hand towel left damp hair __________ her face in fragrant tangles

Answer 16

straggling around

Question 17

The corridor outside the infirmary was empty. Clary _____________

Answer 17

glanced down it

Question 18

Glass lamps blown into the shapes of roses _________________ on the walls, and the air smelled like dusk and candle wax

Answer 18

hung at intervals

Question 19

In the distance she could hear a faint and delicate noise, like ______________ shaken by a storm

Answer 19

wind chimes

Question 20

The sound she was following grew louder. Now she could identif it as the sound of a piano being play with ______________ but undeniable skill

Answer 20

desultory

Question 21

He was barefoot, dressed in jeans and a gray T-shirt, his _______ ruffled u around his head as if he’d just woke up

Answer 21

tawny

Question 22

Clary remembered how it had felt to be lifted up by those hands, his arms holding her up and the stars hurtling down around her head like a rain of _____________

Answer 22

tinsel

Question 23

Paino keys _____ as he got to his feet.

Answer 23

jangled