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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lily think she sees in the road?
(a) A tiger.
(b) A rabbit.
(c) A dog.
(d) A bear.

2. What piece of jewelry does Halmoni give Lily in Chapter 12?
(a) A brooch.
(b) A necklace.
(c) A ring.
(d) A bracelet.

3. In the beginning of Chapter 15, who does Lily overhear having a conversation?
(a) Joan and Sam.
(b) Halmoni and the tiger.
(c) Joan and Halmoni.
(d) Halmoni and Sam.

4. What does Joan say to her mother in the restaurant that she immediately regrets saying?
(a) That she wanted to move away from home.
(b) That she does not believe in her mother's stories.
(c) That she hates rice cakes.
(d) That Halmoni was not always a very nice mother.

5. What does Halmoni do to tease her daughter and show support for one of her granddaughters?
(a) Refuses to move the boxes in front of the stairs.
(b) Tells her daughter to go change her clothing.
(c) Insists on doing the kosa ceremony before dinner.
(d) Pretends that she also had a blond streak in her hair when she was young.

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

7. Naming a town where it always rains "Sunbeam" is an example of what technique?
(a) Irony.
(b) Personification.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Metaphor.

8. What does Lily notice on Halmoni's nightstand in Chapter 8?
(a) Pill bottles.
(b) A book.
(c) A frog figure.
(d) A jewelry box.

9. What do Lily, Sam, and their mother discover when they get to Halmoni's door?
(a) Halmoni is not home.
(b) Halmoni is sick, in bed.
(c) Halmoni is not happy to see them.
(d) Halmoni has an unexpected guest.

10. When they are at the restaurant in Chapter 23, what does Halmoni tease her daughter about?
(a) Moving the boxes without her mother's permission.
(b) Not knowing how to cook.
(c) Sneaking out to meet boyfriends.
(d) Sam's unusual hair.

11. On page 8, what does Lily say is the opening of all of Halmoni's stories?
(a) "Long, long ago, when tiger walked like a man."
(b) "My grandmother told me, and now I am telling you."
(c) "Long before there was a sun and moon."
(d) "When I was a little girl in Korea."

12. What does Lily do at the end of Chapter 9 when she breaks the mug?
(a) Apologizes to her grandmother.
(b) Hides it in the trash.
(c) Pretends that she does not know what happened to it.
(d) Asks Sam to get rid of it.

13. When Halmoni arrives home, what do they learn she has been out doing?
(a) She was with her friends.
(b) She was getting her hair cut.
(c) She was grocery shopping.
(d) She was at the doctor.

14. What does the tiger ask for at the end of Chapter 22?
(a) Rice cakes.
(b) Pine nuts.
(c) Mugwort.
(d) Halmoni's necklace.

15. In Halmoni's stories, who is "Unya"?
(a) The sky god.
(b) The big sister.
(c) The little sister.
(d) The tiger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Halmoni refuse to move the boxes in front to the basement door?

2. What does Sam say that Halmoni's house is full of?

3. What subject does Jensen tutor in?

4. In Chapter 11, why has Ricky come to the library?

5. When the tiger agrees to help Halmoni, what new condition does she add to the bargain?

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