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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 technique is used on page 260 when Lily says "I am the sun"?
(a) Simile.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Personification.

2. When Sam and Lily arrive at Halmoni's hospital room, whom does Halmoni say she wants to speak to?
(a) Lily.
(b) Sam.
(c) Halmoni's mother.
(d) Joan.

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

4. What technique is used in the page 270 sentence "It's scratchy, and the fabric scritch-skritches against my thighs"?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Irony.
(c) Simile.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lily discover on the stairs when she comes down in the morning in Chapter 29?

2. Why does Lily call Ricky at the end of Chapter 24?

3. What is the first thing that Halmoni says that Lily thinks she might be wrong about?

4. When Sam and Lily get to Halmoni's room, what is Joan doing?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In the tiger's second story, who is the girl and what happens to her?

2. Why is Joan upset that Lily has done something mean to Ricky, in particular, and what does she say Lily will need to do?

3. Even if the stories did not make Halmoni's physical illness go away, in what sense have they healed her?

4. When Lily and Sam are talking in Chapter 33, what does Sam say that causes Lily to tell her to "knock on wood," and why does Sam refuse to do this (226)?

5. When Lily sees the tiger at the library, what does the tiger say she got wrong about Lily, and what is Lily's response?

6. When Lily gets to the hospital in Chapter 41, what two things tell her that Halmoni is dying?

7. When Lily talked with Olivia at the restaurant, what did Olivia mention that Lily thought would never happen, and how does it actually happen in Chapter 29?

8. When Lily goes upstairs in Chapter 33, in what way is she using Sam's example to guide her own behavior?

9. What do Ricky and his friends say at the library that upsets Lily, and how does she react?

10. At the end of the book, what ceremony from the beginning of the book is repeated in a new way?

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