Chapter 8 Weapon of Choice A

Question 1

He struggled halfway ____; his battered glasses knowcked askew

Answer 1

into a sitting position

Question 2

Up and over, Jace said, ____________ of a boot into a gap in the fence

Answer 2

jamming the toe

Question 3

Leaves ________ in her grip

Answer 3

tore off

Question 4

tried to struggle out from under the weight that felt like it was _______________

Answer 4

crushing her flat

Question 5

He ________ himself up on his arms and looked down at her __________

Answer 5

levered, placidly

Question 6

Jace, still occupied with the stele, _________________

Answer 6

chuckled low under his breath

Question 7

He __________ her ministrations with glaring bad grace

Answer 7

suffered

Question 8

A breeze blew off the East River, setting a small sign _______________________ the brick front steps

Answer 8

swinging over

Question 9

Yeah,, well, you clearly also couldn’t be bothered to call me and tell me you were shacking up with some _______________ wannable goth you probably met at Pandemonium

Answer 9

dyed-blond

Question 10

NOt that I believed him. After he _____________ his front porch, I went around the side of the house and looked in the back window

Answer 10

shooed me off

Question 11

Jace had ______ hismself ____ the porch railing and was _______________ prentending to ignore them

Answer 11

propped; on; assiduously

Question 12

Ouch, Jace said in her ear, his tone indignant. You ______

Answer 12

elbowed me

Question 13

She was _____ backward, A forehead ______ against hers, her knees baging against someone else’s

Answer 13

knocked; banged

Question 14

of course he didn’t know I was there. I’ve nevered asked him, but I am sure he has a fairly ________________ policy about random teengagers lurking in his shrubbery

Answer 14

stringent

Question 15

He suffered her ministrations with ____________

Answer 15

glaring bad grace

Question 16

He ______ her ______ with glaring bad grace

Answer 16

suffered; ministrations

Question 17

Never mind. Her arm, pinned under her back, was beginning to __________

Answer 17

cramp

Question 18

The last time I saw you, you were running out of ____________ like a bat out of HEll, and then you just… disappeared

Answer 18

Java Jones

Question 19

She thumped to the ground, hard, her hip and shoulde striking _____________

Answer 19

packed earth

Question 20

All right, that’s enough I can fix my own hair, Fray, Simon said, __________________ from her touch

Answer 20

jerking away

Question 21

Clary turned to see Jace sitting on top of the ___________ intruder, whose arms were up over his head

Answer 21

prone

Question 22

He glanced at the dark front door, its knob wound with a heavy ____________

Answer 22

padlock

Question 23

This is Luke’s house. She sat up, _____________ Jace ______________

Answer 23

pitching Jace to the side

Question 24

But what were you doing hiding in Luke’s bushes? Clary asked, _______ leaves out of Simon’s hair

Answer 24

brushing

Question 25

Get the hell off me, you pretentious asshole, the intruder snarled, __________ Jace

Answer 25

shoving at

Question 26

iShe ignored him and scrambled upright, __________ her numb arm

Answer 26

shaking out

Question 27

Her hands ___________ branches.

Answer 27

closed on

Question 28

A dark shadow–much too big to be ______–exploded out of the ________________ and streaked across the year, keeping low

Answer 28

feline; shurbbery; streaked

Question 29

Jace ______ the top of the fence and __________________ the other side; landing in the bushes _______________________ of an earsplitting yowl

Answer 29

cleared; sprang down; to the accompaniment

Question 30

Do you really have a great-aunt Matilda who contracted _______ and needed to be nursed bak to health

Answer 30

avian flu

Question 31

They stood in front of a small gray row house, _______________ among the other row houses that line the Williamsburg waterfront

Answer 31

nestled

Question 32

She flung her hands out, trying to ______________ something, anything that might slow her descent

Answer 32

catch at

Question 33

Isabelle’s jeans caught on twist of wire and ____________

Answer 33

tore up the side