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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. When the tiger agrees to help Halmoni, what new condition does she add to the bargain?
(a) Lily will have to listen to the stories.
(b) Lily will have to keep the transaction a secret.
(c) Lily will have to give her Halmoni's stories.
(d) Lily will have to get Sam to help her.

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 she has never heard of anyone failing the sixth grade.
(b) That tigers are actually very dangerous.
(c) That real life is not like comic books.
(d) That reading is easy and he just has to try harder.

3. What strange thing does Lily discover about the basement?
(a) It is full of furniture and clothing that she has never seen before.
(b) It does not seem to have been flooded, at all.
(c) It has been entirely painted black.
(d) It is completely empty except for a small gold tiger figure.

4. What word does Lily use on page 57 to describe people who have an easy time making and keeping friends?
(a) "Magic."
(b) "Magnetic."
(c) "Glowing."
(d) "Sticky."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Jensen says that it is almost like folktales are living things, what does Lily feel?

2. What technique is employed when Lily says "Nobody can resist Halmoni. She's like gravity" (25)?

3. In the beginning of Chapter 15, who does Lily overhear having a conversation?

4. In the story that the tiger tells in Chapter 22, what can the human girl turn into?

5. In her story, how does Halmoni say she trapped the tigers?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who does Lily meet in the library beside Jensen and Joe, and how does she meet him?

3. Why does Halmoni call Lily her sun and Sam her moon?

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

5. What feeling that Lily already struggled with in the library does Sam experience in the grocery store, and why?

6. In Chapter 19, what does Ricky tell Lily about the tutoring he is receiving at the library?

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

8. 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?

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

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

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