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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 is Ricky's father's name?

2. In the tiger's second story, what does the grandmother put in the jars?

3. What does Jensen pull Sam away to help her with in Chapter 30?

4. In the tiger's second story, how does the girl's wrist feel when the grandmother touches it?

5. In Chapter 28, when Lily gets caught in the kitchen and tells her mother that she is hungry, what does Joan say?

Short Essay Questions

1. Even if the stories did not make Halmoni's physical illness go away, in what sense have they healed her?

2. At the end of the book, what ceremony from the beginning of the book is repeated in a new way?

3. What does Halmoni tell Lily about the star jars in Chapter 35, and what does Lily do as a result in Chapter 36?

4. What does Joan tell Lily and Sam on the way home from the restaurant in Chapter 24, and how does Sam react?

5. In the beginning of Chapter 40, what is Lily's plan to get herself and Sam to the hospital?

6. In Chapter 32, when Joan tells Lily that her actions at the library are more like something Sam would do, what does Lily realize?

7. When Lily and Sam are talking in Chapter 33, what does Sam say that causes Lily to tell her to "knock on wood," and why does Sam refuse to do this (226)?

8. In Chapter 34, what does Lily find out about Ricky's mother and how she is connected to his failure to work hard getting ready for his language arts test?

9. How does the story that Lily tells in Chapter 43 change Halmoni's original tiger story to reflect Lily's new understanding of her family?

10. In Chapter 26, why does Sam not tell Joan when she catches Lily sneaking downstairs in the middle of the night?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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 make and defend a claim about Lily's "invisibility." Support your ideas with textual evidence.

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