Chapter 8 Weapon of Choice B

Question 1

Simon said, __________ the blood on his cheek with the sleeve of his T-shirt

Answer 1

scrubbing at

Question 2

His tone was ______ as sharply as one of Jace’s knives

Answer 2

edged

Question 3

The last light of sunset ________________ from his eyes

Answer 3

struck gold sparks

Question 4

My oath to the covenant ____ me, no such oath ___ you

Answer 4

binds

Question 5

\he had a stronger practical ______ than almost anyone else she knew

Answer 5

streak

Question 6

Simon nodded enthusiastically enough to make the dark curls ____ on his forehead

Answer 6

bounce

Question 7

Totally, it’s like _______ and dragons, but real

Answer 7

dungeons

Question 8

He’s probably never met a six-foot-tall hot elf-woman in a ___ bikini either. Clary siad irritably. ______, Simon

Answer 8

fur; lay off

Question 9

Clary worried for a moment that Jace might ______ the porch and _________ Simon senseless

Answer 9

lunge across the porch; throttle

Question 10

It opened, triggering the porch light, which __________ the entryway

Answer 10

illuminated

Question 11

The door that led into the bookstore was closed; Clary ___ the knob

Answer 11

jiggled

Question 12

Allow me, mundanes, said Jace, ____ her gently aside

Answer 12

setting

Question 13

He took his stele out of his pocket and _________

Answer 13

put it to the door

Question 14

He ____ between two narrow stacks of boxes, and whistled

Answer 14

edged

Question 15

Light _______, bthing the room in a brilliant glow

Answer 15

flared up

Question 16

light flared up, ____ the room in a brillian glow

Answer 16

bathing

Question 17

Clary was already _______ the boxes, pushing a way to Jace

Answer 17

clambering through

Question 18

He was standing behind a ________ of mysteries

Answer 18

teetering pile

Question 19

At first she thought he was pointing at what looked like a pair of ornamental ____________

Answer 19

sconces

Question 20

He reached up to run his hand along the inside of one of the metal loops. When he lowered it, his fingers were _____ with red-brown powder

Answer 20

dusted

Question 21

He pointed to the wall right around where the chains were sunk in; the ______ seemed to bulge outward

Answer 21

plaster

Question 22

The plaster seemed to ________

Answer 22

buldge outward

Question 23

Clary remembred ________________ the entirety of the Chronicles of Prydain here

Answer 23

plowing through

Question 24

I think he’s still around, called Simon, standing in the doorway of Luke’s small kitchenette. The _______ on and there’s coffe here

Answer 24

percolator

Question 25

Clary peered around the kitchen door. Dishes were _____ in the sink

Answer 25

stacked

Question 26

It looked the same as ever, the bed with its gray ______ and flat pillows unmade

Answer 26

coverlet

Question 27

They’d setay up late watching old hoorror movies on the __________ black and white TV

Answer 27

flickering

Question 28

She een kept a backpack full of etra things here so she didn’t have to ____ her stuff back and forth from home

Answer 28

lug

Question 29

She tugged it out from under the bed ____ its olive green strap

Answer 29

by

Question 30

quickly she hanged, ______ I|sabelle’s too-big and now grass-stained an dsweaty clothes, and pulling on a pair of her own _______________, soft as worn paper, and a blue tank top with a design of Chinese characters across the front

Answer 30

stripping off; sandblasted cords

Question 31

the pack _____ familiarly between her ________

Answer 31

bouncing; shoulder blades