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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. Whom does Sam suggest can drive her and Lily to the hospital?
(a) Jensen.
(b) Joe.
(c) The next-door neighbor.
(d) Rick Everett.

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

3. What is the best description of Joan's attitude when she catches Lily in the kitchen in Chapter 28?
(a) Warm and casual.
(b) Skeptical and reserved.
(c) Cold and critical.
(d) Confused and worried.

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

5. What does Ricky say his friends think about Lily after the mud incident?
(a) They think she is weird.
(b) They think she is melodramatic.
(c) They think she is cool.
(d) They think she is mean.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Ricky try to use in Chapter 34 because he wants Lily to feel comfortable and respected?

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

3. When Sam talks about their father, what does Lily suddenly remember?

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

5. When Sam and Lily arrive at Halmoni's hospital room, whom does Halmoni say she wants to speak to?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the story that Lily tells in Chapter 43 change Halmoni's original tiger story to reflect Lily's new understanding of her family?

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

8. 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)?

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

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

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