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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. What does Sam assume about Miel and the Bonner sisters in Part III that hurts him?
(a) They are enemies now.
(b) They are best friends now.
(c) Miel will leave town with them.
(d) The Bonners' parents like Miel better than they like him.

2. Who does Peyton tell Sam she never meant to scare?
(a) Miel.
(b) Ivy.
(c) Aracely.
(d) Sam.

3. How does Miel's mother really die?
(a) She dies trying to save Miel and Leandro.
(b) She dies of a heart attack.
(c) She dies when a spell she is casting goes wrong.
(d) She dies in a car accident.

4. Why does Miel remember that her mother sometimes forced her under the water?
(a) As part of Miel's mother's illness.
(b) To help her with her diving.
(c) To help Miel search for fish the family needed for food.
(d) To try to rid her of the roses, and, her mother believed, their curse.

5. Who saves Sam from the river?
(a) Sam's mother.
(b) Miel.
(c) Lian.
(d) Aracely.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does Sam propose to his mother in Part IV?

2. What does Ivy do to Miel again in the section "Lake of Sorrows"?

3. What ceremony does the town have involving pumpkins?

4. What is the term Sam uses for the "seas of cold" he paints?

5. Why does Sam decide not to go through with the lovesickness cure after all?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sam originally get assigned detention in Part III?

2. What does Miel discover at the lighting that makes her angry with Sam and Aracely?

3. What does Aracely tell Miel about the history of powers in their family?

4. What happens to Miel's rose in Part III in the river?

5. How has Sam helped Peyton Bonner in the past?

6. What big idea does Sam introduce to his mother about himself in Part IV?

7. What does Miel do to Sam after she gets him out of the river?

8. Who saves Miel from the coffin in Part IV?

9. How do Miel and Sam apologize to each other in Part IV?

10. Who does Sam tell he is quitting work at the Bonner farm, and why?

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