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

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

3. What important fact does Lily realize about Sam in Chapter 46?
(a) She is in a romantic relationship with Jensen.
(b) She does believe in the same magic as Halmoni believed in.
(c) She is a lot more like Lily than Lily realized.
(d) She never intended to hurt Lily's feelings with her anger.

4. What theory about the tiger's appearances outside of their car does Lily explain in Chapter 40?
(a) The tiger was trying to warn her about Halmoni's health.
(b) The tiger was trying to guide them safely home.
(c) The tiger was tracking them to find Halmoni's house.
(d) The tiger was hoping that Halmoni would see her.

5. Why is Sam scared to drive herself and Lily to the hospital?
(a) It is not legal for her to drive without an adult.
(b) She is too emotional to drive safely.
(c) Their father died in a car accident.
(d) She does not have permission to use the car.

Short Answer Questions

1. What new fact does Lily learn about Halmoni in Chapter 45?

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

3. What does Lily realize when she sees the tiger at the beginning of Chapter 27?

4. What detail in Lily's story in Chapter 43 lets the reader know that it is set in modern times?

5. In Chapter 38, when Lily explains that it feels like no matter how tight she tries to squeeze her heart to hold it together, it just keeps crumbling away, what earlier conversation does this remind the reader of?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 34, what does Lily find out about Ricky's mother and how she is connected to his failure to work hard getting ready for his language arts test?

2. What does Joan tell Lily and Sam on the way home from the restaurant in Chapter 24, and how does Sam react?

3. In Chapter 39, what does Sam confess to Lily about her response to their father's death?

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

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

6. In the beginning of Chapter 40, what is Lily's plan to get herself and Sam to the hospital?

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

8. Why does Lily want to throw away the rice cakes before even baking them, and how does Ricky convince her not to?

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

10. What does Halmoni tell Lily about the star jars in Chapter 35, and what does Lily do as a result in Chapter 36?

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