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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. Lily thinks that her mother would call Jensen an "unrelenting optimist" (65). What does this mean?

2. When Lily gets to the library in Chapter 16, what does Joe tell her?

3. When Halmoni gets confused in the restaurant, who does Lily blame?

4. On page 8, what does Lily say is the opening of all of Halmoni's stories?

5. What has physically changed about Halmoni since Lily last saw her?

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

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

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

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

6. When Sam is doing Lily's hair in Chapter 20, what reasons does she give for disliking Halmoni's tiger story?

7. When Sam and Lily's mother is trying to get the girls out of the car at Halmoni's, what happens that shows how Lily gets put in the middle of Sam and their mother's fights?

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

9. What kind of a trap do Lily and Ricky build, and where do they build it?

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 the symbolic role of food in the novel. Support your ideas with evidence from the text.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about the role that stories play in the lives of the book's characters and in the book's overall theme. Support your ideas with evidence from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you compare and contrast Lily's home with Ricky's home and explore what significance their similarities and differences have. Support your ideas with evidence from the text.

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