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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 does Sam think that you really lose a person who dies?
(a) When you can no longer remember their voice.
(b) When you forget the sound of their laughter.
(c) When you forget your stories about them.
(d) When you can no longer picture their face.

2. Where does Sam stop the car on the way to the hospital?
(a) Halfway down Halmoni's driveway.
(b) In the parking lot of Dragon Thyme.
(c) In the road in front of the library.
(d) At Jensen's house.

3. In the tiger's second story, what calls to the girl?
(a) The forest.
(b) The sky.
(c) The mountains.
(d) The sea.

4. Joan's search for the rice and the rice that Lily found on the stairs are examples of what plotting device?
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Exposition.
(c) Central conflict.
(d) Nonlinear narrative.

5. What detail in Lily's story in Chapter 43 lets the reader know that it is set in modern times?
(a) The younger sister is watching television.
(b) The grandmother buys Reece's peanut butter cups.
(c) The grandmother gets stuck in traffic.
(d) The older sister has a cell phone.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 25, what is Ricky pleased to find out Lily think about him?

2. From her comments to Lily in Chapter 33, what is it clear that Sam thinks she cannot believe in and be a grownup?

3. Whom does Sam suggest can drive her and Lily to the hospital?

4. What is Ricky's father's name?

5. What does Halmoni tell Lily when Lily says that she can save Halmoni?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 41, what realization does Lily come to about the tiger's identity, and what clues help her figure it out?

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

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

4. As Halmoni lies dying in Chapter 41, what gesture does Sam make with the necklace that has a symbolic meaning, and what is that meaning?

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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