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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 treat does Jensen offer Lily at the library?

2. What "rule" does Lily think she might be breaking when, on page 20, she criticizes the way Sam treats their mother?

3. When the girls lived with Halmoni before, where did their mother sleep?

4. When Lily hears a "thud" and thinks they have hit something with their car, what is she really hearing?

5. What technique is employed when Lily says "Nobody can resist Halmoni. She's like gravity" (25)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What incidents in Chapters 10 and 13 show Lily that people can be both good and bad?

2. What does Lily learn about her grandmother in Chapter 15, and what decision does it cause her to make?

3. What are some of the ways that the author foreshadows the revelation that Halmoni is sick?

4. What does QAG stand for in this story, and why is it a mean thing for Sam to call Lily?

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. What feeling that Lily already struggled with in the library does Sam experience in the grocery store, and why?

7. Why does Halmoni call Lily her sun and Sam her moon?

8. What does Lily find inside a pot in the box from the basement, and what does she think is inside?

9. What happens between Ricky and his father in the grocery store, and what does Halmoni tell them?

10. When Lily tells Sam about the tiger, at the beginning of Chapter 16, what is Sam's response?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you examine the role that cultural pride plays in Lily's life. Use evidence from the text to support your claims.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you explain Halmoni's comment, on page 270, that Lily's special power is that she can "see." Give examples from throughout the text that support your interpretation of Halmoni's words.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you analyze how Ricky's hats are used as an element of characterization. Be sure to support your ideas with textual evidence.

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