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

2. 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?

3. What does the tiger ask for at the end of Chapter 22?

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

5. Where does Halmoni tell Lily and Sam stories hide?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When Sam comes into the library looking for Lily, what is she mad about, and what temporarily distracts her from her anger?

3. What does Lily learn in Chapter 9 about her grandmother's immigration to the United States?

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

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

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

7. Why does Lily feel more sure about telling Halmoni about the tiger than she does about telling Sam?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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 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.

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