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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. What does Lily notice on Halmoni's nightstand in Chapter 8?
2. What kind of child does Halmoni claim that the girls' mother was?
3. What part of Halmoni's tiger story do Lily and Sam disagree about in Chapter 20?
4. When Halmoni arrives home, what do they learn she has been out doing?
5. When Lily is eavesdropping on Ricky and his father, what does she hide behind?
Short Essay Questions
1. What unusual thing does Ricky seem to wear a lot of, and why does he do it?
2. When Sam comes into the library looking for Lily, what is she mad about, and what temporarily distracts her from her anger?
3. Why does Halmoni call Lily her sun and Sam her moon?
4. When Lily tells Sam about the tiger, at the beginning of Chapter 16, what is Sam's response?
5. 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?
6. When the girls and their mother get to Halmoni's house, how does their mother get them inside, and what does it reveal to the girls?
7. In this story, what is kosa, and why is it important?
8. When they are finally inside Halmoni's house, besides the fact that Halmoni is missing, what else strikes them as odd?
9. What happens between Ricky and his father in the grocery store, and what does Halmoni tell them?
10. What does Lily find inside a pot in the box from the basement, and what does she think is inside?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay in which you analyze the symbolic significance of the white streak in Sam's hair. Support your claims with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you analyze the book's messages about what it means to be "prepared" to die. Support your claims with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that analyzes the many ways in which the characters in this book "leave" one another; include in your analysis a claim about what "leaving" means within the context of the book as a whole. Be sure to support your ideas with evidence from the text.
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