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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 confused.
(b) She feels embarrassed.
(c) She feels betrayed.
(d) She feels discouraged.

2. What does Lily have to substitute for bean paste in her rice cakes?
(a) Peanut butter.
(b) Mashed bananas.
(c) Cream cheese.
(d) Grape jelly.

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

4. What does Lily realize when she sees the tiger at the beginning of Chapter 27?
(a) The tiger is actually trapped, this time.
(b) She feels both angry at and sorry for the tiger.
(c) The tiger is like her sister Sam.
(d) She's not as afraid as she once was.

5. When Lily comes downstairs in the beginning of Chapter 29, what does she find Halmoni doing?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Telling a story.
(d) Singing.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 40, what does Lily realize about Sam's attitude toward Halmoni's magic?

2. 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?

3. What does Lily decide to make in the middle of the night in Chapter 45?

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

5. On their way home from the restaurant, how much time does Joan say Halmoni probably has left?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

9. In Chapter 32, when Joan tells Lily that her actions at the library are more like something Sam would do, what does Lily realize?

10. 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?

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