Chapter 10 City of Bones E (180-188)

Question 1

Clary felt her mouth _____ a smile

Answer 1

twitch into

Question 2

After a moment she followed, _____ \jace’s outstretched hand _____ as she went

Answer 2

knocking aside

Question 3

She looked at the table, at the long row of silent figures _____ in their heavy robes

Answer 3

muffled

Question 4

She ____ her teeth. She wanted to resist them, wanted to ______ those intrusive voices out of her head

Answer 4

gritted; pry

Question 5

The ____ inside her mind ceased as suddenly as a record that had stopped spinning

Answer 5

din

Question 6

something large and white loomed up on her left side like an iceberg off the _____ of the Titanic

Answer 6

bow

Question 7

Her mother was hurrying her down a ______ street btween piles of _____and dirty snow

Answer 7

night-black; heaped

Question 8

There are many levels to the Silent City, interjected Jeremiah. And not all the dead are buried here. There is another __________ in Idris

Answer 8

assuary

Question 9

They inclined their heads toward Jace, a gesture of silent acknowledgement, before they ________ among the pillars and were gone

Answer 9

filed away

Question 10

Her mind seemed to _________ on itself, like a rubber band, and she _____ soundlessly into a whirlwind of images cast against the insides of her closed eylids

Answer 10

snap in; reeled

Question 11

He’s taken one of the green burning torches out of its ______ and was holding it at tey level. It ____ a pale green ____ ___ his skin

Answer 11

bracket; lent; cast to

Question 12

Jace thrust the torch ahead of him, ______ the walls with shadows

Answer 12

streaking

Question 13

The Brother who at in the center seat _____ his thin white fingers beneath his chin

Answer 13

templed

Question 14

This was nothing more than the _____ of a past crime

Answer 14

excavation

Question 15

As the three of them passed through the first arch, something large and white loomed up on her left side like an iceberg ____ the bow of the Titanic

Answer 15

the bow

Question 16

In _____ they raised their hands and pushed their cowls back, _______ their scarred faces and the ____ of their empty eyes

Answer 16

unison; baring; pits

Question 17

The silent word ____ in the darkness between them

Answer 17

hung

Question 18

Though she had seen Brother Jeremiah’s uncovered face already, Clary’s stomach ______

Answer 18

knotted

Question 19

Seated at the table was a row of Silent Brothers, each wrapped and _____ in the same parchment-colored robes as Jeremiah

Answer 19

cowled

Question 20

No need to ________________, Brother Jeremiah, he drawled. Lead on. We’ll be right behind you

Answer 20

stand on ceremony

Question 21

At the foot of the stairs was another tunnel, which widened out at the end into a square _______ , each corner of which was marked by a ____ of carved bones

Answer 21

pavilion; spire

Question 22

All your dead? she said, half-wanting to ask him if his father was buried here, but he had already moved ahead, out of _________

Answer 22

earshot

Question 23

An empty saquare _____ the earth, a plain coffin lowered into it

Answer 23

cut into

Question 24

It’s a _______, said \jace, directing a ______ of torch light at it. Clary could see that a rune was carved in too the door, which was sealed shut with _________________. A tomb. We bury our dead here

Answer 24

mausoleum, flash; bolts of iron

Question 25

The stairs ended in a _________; ahead of them stretched a tunnel, long and black, _____ with the curling roots of trees

Answer 25

shallow landing; ridged

Question 26

Just in front of the table was a larger square, made of white marble and _____ with a parabolic design of silver stars.

Answer 26

embossed

Question 27

but all were demanding, insistent, _____ the fragile barriers around her mind

Answer 27

pushing at

Question 28

Remembering the stinging sensation when the stele had touched her wrist, she __________________, but all she felt as the glowing instrument glided lightly over her injury was a faint warm

Answer 28

braced herself

Question 29

Two words _________ at her, burning into her eyes: Magnus Bane

Answer 29

leaped out

Question 30

Then it was winter on the black street again and they were hurrying, ______ an umbrella

Answer 30

huddled

Question 31

In the center of the pavilion was a long table of black _____ ____ in white

Answer 31

basalt veined

Question 32

Clary saw that the floor was inscribed with the same runes that sometimes decorated Jace's skin with lines and _____ and swirling patterns

Answer 32

whorls

Question 33

He was waiting for her at the __________ of the steps

Answer 33

foot

Question 34

She shrieked as the images fell away and she spun upward, _______ the surface of consciousness like a diver ________________ through a wave

Answer 34

breaking; breaking up

Question 35

The stairs ended ___ a shallow landing; ahead of them ______ a tunnel

Answer 35

in; stretched

Question 36

They had reached another staircase leading down into more ___________

Answer 36

twilight

Question 37

A sudden pain ____ thrugh her right arm

Answer 37

lanced

Question 38

He ___ his lower lip ______ his teeth and whistled

Answer 38

caught; between

Question 39

The marble itself was a pure, ashy ivory, hard and polished-looking, ____ in places with narrow strips of ____, jasper, and jade.

Answer 39

inset; onyx

Question 40

When he relreased her arm, she _______ the stairs after Jace, her heart pounding against her ____

Answer 40

skittered down; ribs

Question 41

It was a block of white stone, smooth and square, with a sort of door ______ the front

Answer 41

inset into

Question 42

She could see the _______ of his scarared face beneath the edge of his cowl

Answer 42

bony gleam

Question 43

Just in front of the table was a larger square, made of white marble and embossed with a ______ design of silver stars

Answer 43

parabolic