Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2015 / iii / Paper 20 / 4 / b

Work over an affine open subscheme $V=\mathrm{Spec}A$ of $Z$. Since $g$ is a closed immersion, its inverse image is $\mathrm{Spec}(A/I)$ for some ideal $I$. Since $f$ is a closed immersion, the inverse image of this affine scheme in $X$ is $\mathrm{Spec}((A/I)/J)$ for an ideal $J\subseteq A/I$. Let $\tilde{J}$ be the inverse image of $J$ in $A$. The composite on this open is induced by the surjectionThe affine-local characterization from part (a) therefore shows that $g\circ f$ is a closed immersion. In particular, closed-subscheme ideals compose by taking the inverse image of the second quotient ideal.