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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Aracely tell Sam she did not instantly try to comfort Miel when she was spilled from the water tower?
(a) Miel was dangerous at the time.
(b) Aracely did not recognize her.
(c) She might have scared Miel.
(d) Her books had told her not to approach Miel.

2. What does Sam tell Aracely she does not get to "pick apart"?
(a) His education.
(b) His clothes.
(c) His relationship with Miel.
(d) Bacha posh.

3. What work does Sam's mother do?
(a) Accounting.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Landscaping.
(d) Tutoring and childcare.

4. What do people think about Lian Bonner?
(a) She may secretly be a boy.
(b) She is the most beautiful of the sisters.
(c) She is dim-witted.
(d) She has the most power of all the sisters.

5. Who is the first person to approach Miel upon her entry to the town?
(a) Peyton.
(b) Sam.
(c) Aracely.
(d) Lian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sam do to try to minimize the appearance and feel of his breasts?

2. Why did one of the Bonner Sisters have to leave town for a while?

3. Who originally found the glass box, according to Ivy?

4. Who lets Miel out of the coffin?

5. What is Miel terrified of?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the section titled Sea of Clouds, what changes in Sam's and Miel's relationship?

2. What does Aracely often do for Ms. Owens, and what happens in Part II?

3. What does Miel remember about her own mother?

4. What do the Bonner sisters do to Miel when she does not want to give them what they want?

5. What does Sam think is a misconception about Lian Bonner?

6. What does Sam notice between Aracelly and Miel that he cannot shake the thought of in Part II?

7. Who comes to save Miel from the field of broken glass?

8. What does being in the glass coffin remind Miel of?

9. How do the townspeople treat Aracely?

10. What is Sam's deep secret that only a very few people in his life know?

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