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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 is the best description of Lily's feelings when Sam tells her mother about the mud in Ricky's pudding cup?
(a) She feels embarrassed.
(b) She feels betrayed.
(c) She feels confused.
(d) She feels discouraged.

2. Besides Japan, which other country does Halmoni say did bad things to Korea?
(a) The United States.
(b) China.
(c) Great Britain.
(d) Taiwan.

3. What does Lily decide to make in the middle of the night in Chapter 45?
(a) Rice cakes.
(b) Sweet and sour chicken.
(c) Kalbi.
(d) Kimchi.

4. On page 270, Halmoni says that she has seen her "umma." From context, what must this word mean?
(a) Family.
(b) Mother.
(c) Tiger.
(d) God.

5. When Lily goes up to her bedroom in Chapter 36, what is the thumping noise that she hears?
(a) The tiger bounding up the stairs behind her.
(b) Sam climbing up the rope to their room.
(c) Joan coming in and slamming the front door.
(d) Halmoni falling in the kitchen.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the tiger's second story, how does the girl's wrist feel when the grandmother touches it?

2. In Chapter 41, what does the tiger tell Lily about the story from the broken jar?

3. In the beginning of Chapter 40, where does Lily think she might find the tiger?

4. On page 170, what does Lily say "always come[s] at a price"?

5. Why does Sam feel responsible for Halmoni's collapse?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 40, what evidence is there that the tiger might actually be real?

2. What things about Ricky's family does Lily learn on the way to his house in Chapter 25?

3. What does Lily tell Ricky his house reminds her of, and why does she feel bad about saying it?

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

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

6. In Chapter 26, why does Sam not tell Joan when she catches Lily sneaking downstairs in the middle of the night?

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

8. When Lily gets ready to go downstairs in Chapter 26, what similarity does she recognize to Halmoni's story, and how does it make her feel?

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

10. When Lily returns to Halmoni's hospital room in Chapter 42, what does Halmoni tell Lily about her own mother and about Lily also seeing her?

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