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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 kind of child does Halmoni claim that the girls' mother was?
(a) Talkative.
(b) Sneaky.
(c) Helpful.
(d) Selfish.

2. When Jensen says that it is almost like folktales are living things, what does Lily feel?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Fear.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Anger.

3. What part of Halmoni's tiger story do Lily and Sam disagree about in Chapter 20?
(a) Whether the tiger has good intentions.
(b) Which sister opens the window.
(c) Which sister becomes the moon.
(d) Whether the tiger dies in the end.

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

5. What confuses Lily about the way Ricky talks about his mother?
(a) He sometimes uses the past tense and sometimes uses the present tense.
(b) He does not seem to know very much about his own mother.
(c) He says that he loves her but makes a lot of critical remarks about her.
(d) He acts like information about his mother is a big secret.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Halmoni tell Lily and Sam stories hide?

2. What does Lily notice on Halmoni's nightstand in Chapter 8?

3. What strange thing does Lily discover about the basement?

4. When Lily hesitates to speak her mind, what does Sam call her, on page 20?

5. In the opening of the story, what are Sam and their mother fighting about?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What kind of a trap do Lily and Ricky build, and where do they build it?

3. When they are finally inside Halmoni's house, besides the fact that Halmoni is missing, what else strikes them as odd?

4. What mixture of emotions does Lily feel about her "invisibility"?

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. What does Lily learn about her grandmother in Chapter 15, and what decision does it cause her to make?

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