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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Lily decide to make in the middle of the night in Chapter 45?
(a) Rice cakes.
(b) Sweet and sour chicken.
(c) Kalbi.
(d) Kimchi.

3. What is Sam doing at the window in the middle of the night at the beginning of Chapter 26?
(a) Getting ready to drop a rope out.
(b) Tossing her backpack out.
(c) Signaling to a friend outside.
(d) Watching the stars.

4. On their car ride home from the restaurant, what does Sam reveal to her family?
(a) She might not believe in God.
(b) She is worried that Lily might be losing touch with reality.
(c) She expects that one day she will also run away.
(d) She is starting to be glad they moved.

5. What additional circumstance makes it even harder for Sam to drive herself and Lily to the hospital?
(a) It is raining hard.
(b) She burned her hand cooking with Halmoni.
(c) She has never driven in the dark.
(d) She hurt her hand climbing back into the house.

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

7. What other strange thing beside mud does Ricky say he has eaten?
(a) A worm.
(b) A cockroach.
(c) A cricket.
(d) A salamander.

8. What does Lily put into Ricky's pudding cup?
(a) Mugwort.
(b) Mud.
(c) Kimchi.
(d) Cough syrup.

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

10. When Sam talks about their father, what does Lily suddenly remember?
(a) Her dad reading them bedtime stories.
(b) Her dad's eyes watering when he ate kimchi.
(c) Her dad making them milkshakes.
(d) Her dad pushing her on the swing.

11. When Lily goes up to her bedroom in Chapter 36, what is the thumping noise that she hears?
(a) Halmoni falling in the kitchen.
(b) Joan coming in and slamming the front door.
(c) The tiger bounding up the stairs behind her.
(d) Sam climbing up the rope to their room.

12. In Chapter 34, what does Ricky advise Lily she should do to improve her tiger trap?
(a) Camouflage the trap.
(b) Add laser beams.
(c) Put a prey animal in the middle of the trap.
(d) Move it to a better location.

13. On page 220, Joan refers to Halmoni as "eccentric." What does this mean is true about Halmoni?
(a) That she does not always do things the way that other people do them.
(b) That she is exciting and unpredictable.
(c) That she holds herself to a higher standard than most people do.
(d) That she usually goes too far in the things she says and does.

14. When Lily thinks she hears the tiger's voice again at the end of the book, whose voice is she really hearing?
(a) Halmoni's.
(b) Her own.
(c) Joan's.
(d) Sam's.

15. On page 278, when Lily says that she is scared, what does Joan tell her?
(a) "There's nothing to be scared of."
(b) "You're not alone."
(c) "Sam and I are scared, too."
(d) "Be brave for Halmoni."

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in the page 270 sentence "It's scratchy, and the fabric scritch-skritches against my thighs"?

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

3. What does Lily have to substitute for bean paste in her rice cakes?

4. In the tiger's second story, what does the girl ask her grandmother to do?

5. In the tiger's second story, what does the grandmother put in the jars?

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