Awake

What is unusual about Roisa’s mother in “Awake”?

• She is sitting next to Roisa's father.

• She is frozen like a statue.

• She is sitting in a carven chair.

• She is wearing glamorous jewelry.

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On the night the story takes place in “Awake,” where does Roisa go with the Thirteen Faeries?

• to visit foreign lands on flying horses

• to explore the hidden rooms in the palace

• to prepare for her sixteenth birthday party

• to look at the Spinning Wheel and Spindle

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Who is Carabeau in “Awake”?

• the King

• the Queen Fey

• the white horse

• the handsome guardsman

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Why does the Thirteenth Fey stop time on Roisa’s sixteenth birthday in “Awake”?

• to punish the kingdom

• to demonstrate her power

• to give Roisa time to herself

• to keep Roisa away from the palace

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If Anna describes the leaves of a tree as motionless, what is true about the leaves?

• They are moving slowly.

• They are not moving now.

• They move less than before.

• They usually do not to move.

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Which of the following sentences best shows the meaning of static?

• Gabby’s fashion sense has changed over the years.

• This furniture has been in the same position for ten years.

• Miguel’s mom asked why he had not cleaned the kitchen yet.

• Bethany gazed up as the stars slowly moved across the night sky.

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If Luke and Mae steal out of the room, what are they doing?

• making a commotion

• sneaking away secretively

• trying to be the center of attention

• taking something that does not belong to them

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Which of the following is true of the role of magic in “Awake”?

• Magic is something that is valued by both the humans and the faeries in the story.

• The faeries possess a great deal of magic, but there are certain things that even they cannot do.

• The magic of the faeries is strong, but they only use it in consultation with the humans in the story.

• Magic plays a powerful role in the lives of the humans in the story, and they have little control over it. 

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Part A

Which of the following best describes Roisa’s decision at the end of “Awake”?

• Roisa cannot wait to be away from the faeries, whom she fears.

• Roisa enjoyed the human world, but she wants to remain with the faeries.

• Roisa appreciates the time she spent with the faeries, but she wants to return to the human world.

• Roisa is unsure about returning home, and she wishes that she could live in both the faery and human worlds.

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Part B

Which quotation from “Awake” most clearly supports the answer to Part A?

• Even though by now she knew this person so well—better, probably, than she’d known her own mother—Roisa never quite stopped being surprised by her.

• She didn’t know what it was—should she thank the Faeries excessively for all the pleasures and travels, the feasts eaten and sights seen?

• She wanted precisely what she was supposed to have, before the magic of the Spinning Wheel and the hundred years’ waking sleep.

• And in a voice Roisa never heard, Carabeau added, “And soon, to you, that is all it will be.”

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