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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Halmoni say the sad stories are about?
(a) Tiger hunting.
(b) Diseases and death.
(c) Korean history.
(d) Her childhood.

2. What does Lily say to Ricky in Chapter 19 that makes him feel like he needs to tell her that he is not "stupid" (133)?
(a) That reading is easy and he just has to try harder.
(b) That she has never heard of anyone failing the sixth grade.
(c) That tigers are actually very dangerous.
(d) That real life is not like comic books.

3. What side-effect of Halmoni's illness explains something that has been puzzling Lily about the basement?
(a) Her nausea.
(b) Her fatigue.
(c) Her hallucinations.
(d) Her paranoia.

4. In her story, how does Halmoni say she trapped the tigers?
(a) By building a wall of stones in front of their caves.
(b) By planting mugwort all around the mountain.
(c) By luring them into a cage.
(d) By flooding the path down the mountain.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long before they moved did the girls know about their mother's plan to move?

2. What unusual thing does Lily see in Chapter 15 that makes her very worried about Halmoni?

3. How does Lily feel when Jensen meets Sam?

4. What does Lily say on page 125 to keep Sam from calling their mother about Ricky's visit?

5. What does Lily learn that Halmoni used to sell when she first moved to Sunbeam?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way is Jensen mostly responsible for Lily getting to know Ricky in the library?

2. In the story that the tiger tells Lily in Chapter 22, what sacrifice does the tiger-girl have to make, and how does it make Lily feel?

3. What incidents in Chapters 10 and 13 show Lily that people can be both good and bad?

4. What unusual thing does Ricky seem to wear a lot of, and why does he do it?

5. Why does Lily feel more sure about telling Halmoni about the tiger than she does about telling Sam?

6. When Sam is doing Lily's hair in Chapter 20, what reasons does she give for disliking Halmoni's tiger story?

7. What happens between Ricky and his father in the grocery store, and what does Halmoni tell them?

8. What does Lily learn in Chapter 9 about her grandmother's immigration to the United States?

9. What are some of the ways that the author foreshadows the revelation that Halmoni is sick?

10. When the girls and their mother get to Halmoni's house, how does their mother get them inside, and what does it reveal to the girls?

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