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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 side-effect of Halmoni's illness explains something that has been puzzling Lily about the basement?

2. Naming a town where it always rains "Sunbeam" is an example of what technique?

3. Who suggests that the family eat at Dragon Thyme in Chapter 23?

4. What does Lily compare Sam to as they stand in the rain outside Halmoni's cottage?

5. What does Lily say that causes Sam to tell Lily that she is naive?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. When they are finally inside Halmoni's house, besides the fact that Halmoni is missing, what else strikes them as odd?

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. When Lily goes to the library and asks Ricky for help, what does he suggest, and what is her reaction?

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 analyze the symbolic significance of the white streak in Sam's hair. Support your claims with evidence from the text.

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