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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. Where does Halmoni tell Lily and Sam stories hide?

2. When they leave the library, what does Sam compare Halmoni's house to?

3. Where did Sam and Lily live before moving to Washington?

4. What claim does Halmoni make that Lily has a hard time believing?

5. What piece of jewelry does Halmoni give Lily in Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. In Chapter 19, what does Ricky tell Lily about the tutoring he is receiving at the library?

3. What does Halmoni tell Lily that she stole, and why?

4. In this story, what is kosa, and why is it important?

5. When and why did Lily and Sam live with Halmoni, before?

6. 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?

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

8. What mixture of emotions does Lily feel about her "invisibility"?

9. What happens when the box slips from Ricky's hands, and why is it so upsetting to Lily?

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 Joan's characterization as a mother to Sam and Lily; what are her strengths and weaknesses, and what evidence in the text backs up your assertions?

Essay Topic 2

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.

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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