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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Lily is outside the hospital talking to the tiger in Chapter 41, what contradictory feelings does she express?
(a) She wants to be close to Sam again, but she also wants to be independent.
(b) She wants to be invisible, but she also wants to be noticed.
(c) She wants Halmoni to live, but she also wants Halmoni's pain to be over.
(d) She wants to tell people when she disagrees with them, but she also does not want anyone to be angry at her.

2. What is Lily looking for as Ricky leads her through his house?
(a) Ricky's mother.
(b) Evidence of the tiger-hunting grandfather.
(c) Ricky's siblings.
(d) Something that will remind her of her own home.

3. On page 171, what does Joan say that Lily thinks "moms are never supposed to say"?
(a) "I don't know."
(b) "I need help."
(c) "I've lost hope."
(d) "I don't care."

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) Irony.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Understatement.
(d) Paradox.

5. What is the best description of Joan's attitude when she catches Lily in the kitchen in Chapter 28?
(a) Skeptical and reserved.
(b) Cold and critical.
(c) Confused and worried.
(d) Warm and casual.

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

7. In the tiger's second story, what does the girl ask her grandmother to do?
(a) Sing to her.
(b) Teach her to make rice cakes.
(c) Tell her stories.
(d) Tell her about her mother.

8. On page 277, when Lily says that the stories were supposed to save Halmoni, what does Joan reply?
(a) "Stories are not magic."
(b) "They did save her."
(c) "Maybe the stories saved us."
(d) "It was just her time to go."

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

10. 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) Magic.
(c) Miracles.
(d) Prayer.

11. What does Joe give Lily when she gets to the library in Chapter 30?
(a) A cupcake.
(b) A pudding cup.
(c) A book of Korean folktales.
(d) A flyer for the library bake sale.

12. When the tiger is done telling her second story, what aspect of it bothers Lily?
(a) The separation of the sisters.
(b) The loss of the pearl pendant.
(c) The older sister's failure to protect her younger sister.
(d) The sky god's failure to make the girl fully human.

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

14. When Lily goes down to see the tiger at the end of Chapter 33, what does she find?
(a) The tiger will no longer talk to her.
(b) The tiger is not there.
(c) Halmoni has taken the boxes back upstairs.
(d) Joan is waiting for her.

15. What does Lily discover on the stairs when she comes down in the morning in Chapter 29?
(a) Mugwort.
(b) Pine nuts.
(c) Rice.
(d) Tiger prints.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Sam and Lily arrive at Halmoni's hospital room, whom does Halmoni say she wants to speak to?

2. When Lily enters the kitchen in the beginning of Chapter 32, what is her mother looking for?

3. When Lily asks her mother whether she was ever ashamed of Halmoni when she was young, what does Joan answer?

4. What word does Ricky try to use in Chapter 34 because he wants Lily to feel comfortable and respected?

5. Why does Sam feel responsible for Halmoni's collapse?

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