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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In the opening of the story, what are Sam and their mother fighting about?
2. What does Lily compare Sam to as they stand in the rain outside Halmoni's cottage?
3. In Halmoni's stories, who is "Unya"?
4. In the story that the tiger tells in Chapter 22, who is the girl trying to save when she makes her bargain with the sky god?
5. What strange thing does Lily discover about the basement?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Lily learn about her grandmother in Chapter 15, and what decision does it cause her to make?
2. What kind of a trap do Lily and Ricky build, and where do they build it?
3. In the story that the tiger tells Lily in Chapter 22, what sacrifice does the tiger-girl have to make, and how does it make Lily feel?
4. In what way is Jensen mostly responsible for Lily getting to know Ricky in the library?
5. When Lily goes to the library and asks Ricky for help, what does he suggest, and what is her reaction?
6. What does Lily find inside a pot in the box from the basement, and what does she think is inside?
7. When Sam comes into the library looking for Lily, what is she mad about, and what temporarily distracts her from her anger?
8. What unusual thing does Ricky seem to wear a lot of, and why does he do it?
9. What does Lily learn in Chapter 9 about her grandmother's immigration to the United States?
10. What feeling that Lily already struggled with in the library does Sam experience in the grocery store, and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about Lily's "invisibility." Support your ideas with textual evidence.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the purpose of including the Dragon Thyme restaurant in the novel. Support your ideas with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about what Lily learns from Joe, the librarian. Be sure to consider more than his direct advice to her--think about how he behaves and what other characters say about him, too. Support your ideas with textual evidence.
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