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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Chapters 24-31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ricky compare Halmoni's house to?
(a) A carnival fun house.
(b) A thrift store.
(c) The Dragon Thyme restaurant.
(d) A garden center.

2. When Lily comes downstairs in the beginning of Chapter 29, what does she find Halmoni doing?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Singing.
(d) Telling a story.

3. When Ricky tells Lily about failing language arts, what is she motivated to share with him?
(a) That her father died.
(b) That Halmoni is sick.
(c) That she misses being friends with Sam.
(d) That she wishes she were not so shy.

4. In Halmoni's story in Chapter 8, who is the original storyteller?
(a) The sky god.
(b) A princess in the sky.
(c) The stars.
(d) The tiger.

5. What technique is employed in Lily's description of the attic beds that used to be pushed together but are now far apart?
(a) Personification.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Simile.
(d) Symbolism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Halmoni tell Lily is the "bravest thing of all" (51)?

2. What "rule" does Lily think she might be breaking when, on page 20, she criticizes the way Sam treats their mother?

3. What physical feature does Jensen have that Halmoni has told Lily is "lucky" (63)?

4. Lily thinks that her mother would call Jensen an "unrelenting optimist" (65). What does this mean?

5. What side-effect of Halmoni's illness explains something that has been puzzling Lily about the basement?

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