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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ricky say his friends think about Lily after the mud incident?
(a) They think she is mean.
(b) They think she is weird.
(c) They think she is melodramatic.
(d) They think she is cool.

2. What does Lily compare the shattering jars to?
(a) Her family.
(b) A supernova.
(c) Her shattered heart.
(d) A car crash.

3. On their way home from the restaurant, how much time does Joan say Halmoni probably has left?
(a) A week to two months.
(b) Two months to a year.
(c) One to two months.
(d) One to two weeks.

4. What technique is used when, on page 174, Lily says that Ricky's house "is a stuffy lady who works in a fancy museum"?
(a) Understatement.
(b) Irony.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Metaphor.

5. When Lily is looking out the window as Halmoni is dying, what does she see?
(a) Halmoni's reflection in the glass.
(b) The full moon.
(c) Two little spots of light, like eyes.
(d) The stars.

6. What does Lily have to substitute for bean paste in her rice cakes?
(a) Grape jelly.
(b) Peanut butter.
(c) Mashed bananas.
(d) Cream cheese.

7. What is the first thing that Halmoni says that Lily thinks she might be wrong about?
(a) Sisters should stick together.
(b) Tigers are tricky.
(c) Joan is not a good daughter.
(d) It is better to hide sad stories.

8. When Lily comes upstairs in Chapter 35, what does she see Halmoni doing?
(a) Sleepwalking.
(b) Talking to her own reflection.
(c) Throwing up.
(d) Cooking.

9. What detail in Lily's story in Chapter 43 lets the reader know that it is set in modern times?
(a) The grandmother gets stuck in traffic.
(b) The older sister has a cell phone.
(c) The grandmother buys Reece's peanut butter cups.
(d) The younger sister is watching television.

10. In the beginning of Chapter 45, what household problem do Joan and the girls face?
(a) The basement floods.
(b) Mice invade their kitchen cupboards.
(c) The stove catches fire.
(d) The side window will not stay closed.

11. In Chapter 41, what does the tiger tell Lily about the story from the broken jar?
(a) It is lost and no one will ever know what the story was about.
(b) Lily will need to find the story and bring it to the tiger.
(c) Lily will need to ask Halmoni to tell the story before she dies.
(d) It has been released, just like the other two stories.

12. On page 170, what does Lily say "always come[s] at a price"?
(a) Hope.
(b) Love.
(c) Magic.
(d) Fighting.

13. What does Lily realize when she sees the tiger at the beginning of Chapter 27?
(a) The tiger is actually trapped, this time.
(b) She feels both angry at and sorry for the tiger.
(c) The tiger is like her sister Sam.
(d) She's not as afraid as she once was.

14. From her comments to Lily in Chapter 33, what is it clear that Sam thinks she cannot believe in and be a grownup?
(a) God.
(b) Miracles.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Magic.

15. What technique is being used when the tiger refers to Halmoni as "my Ae-Cha"?
(a) Irony.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Personification.
(d) Allusion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Sam scared to drive herself and Lily to the hospital?

2. In Chapter 34, what does Ricky advise Lily she should do to improve her tiger trap?

3. On page 270, Halmoni says that she has seen her "umma." From context, what must this word mean?

4. When Sam pretends to hand a star to Lily in Halmoni's hospital room, what is she saying with this gesture?

5. In Chapter 40, what does Lily realize about Sam's attitude toward Halmoni's magic?

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