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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the Bonners know Miel cares about the secret they are threatening to reveal?
(a) She starts to turn to water again.
(b) She shows up at their house when they demand it.
(c) She shrinks.
(d) She cries.

2. What was the legend about girls who grew roses from their wrists, according to Miel's father?
(a) They turned on their parents.
(b) They became evil spirits after death.
(c) They become visionaries and queens.
(d) They always died young.

3. What does Aracely tell Miel the water did for her?
(a) Made her tougher.
(b) Drowned her.
(c) Made her see the gods.
(d) Saved her.

4. What does Miel tell Sam in Part III after she pulls him from the river that makes him angry?
(a) He is shutting her out.
(b) He needs to take responsibility for himself.
(c) He needs to tell his mother the truth.
(d) He is not really a boy.

5. How do Sam and Miel apologize to each other?
(a) In their embrace.
(b) With words.
(c) With flowers.
(d) With song.

6. What does Miel do to Sam when she realizes he went into the water alone, deliberately?
(a) Cuts him with a knife.
(b) Threatens to tell his mother.
(c) Slaps him.
(d) Runs away from him.

7. Who does Sam tell he is quitting the Bonners' farm?
(a) Ivy.
(b) Lian.
(c) Chloe.
(d) Peyton.

8. Why is Miel very upset with Sam after the lighting?
(a) She knows he is leaving town soon.
(b) She sees him kissing Ivy.
(c) She sees him kissing Peyton.
(d) She knows he knew about Aracely's true identity and did not tell her.

9. What does everyone call Aracely in town?
(a) The halle.
(b) The curandera.
(c) The brielle.
(d) The rostram.

10. What has happened to Sam's father?
(a) He has transitioned to live life as a woman.
(b) He has died.
(c) He and Sam's mother had an agreement, and they never meant to stay together to raise Sam.
(d) He has been jailed for a long time.

11. What happens in the section titled "Lake of Sorrow" that terrifies Miel?
(a) She loses her rose in the river.
(b) She loses her favorite photo of her mother.
(c) She hears her father's voice telling her to leave town.
(d) She starts drowning again.

12. Who does Sam know some of his moons help?
(a) The town's children.
(b) The witches.
(c) The older residents of the town.
(d) The Bonners.

13. What is one reason Sam goes into the water alone in Part III?
(a) He hopes it will change his body as it changed Aracely's.
(b) He hopes he finds his clothes there.
(c) He hopes it will cleanse his hair.
(d) He hopes it will kill the Bonners.

14. What is the term Sam uses for the "seas of cold" he paints?
(a) Elei mare.
(b) Mare temporis.
(c) Mare terpodis.
(d) Mare frigoris.

15. What do the Bonners think Miel does with her roses before they ask for them?
(a) Bury them in her father's grave.
(b) Make tea from them.
(c) Eat them.
(d) Throw them away.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Aracely defend not telling Miel the truth for years?

2. What happens to Miel at the lighting?

3. What does Miel often do when she comes to Sam's house?

4. Who does Sam sometimes help that Miel appeals to to try to stop the Bonners' terrible plot?

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

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