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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 tiger is done telling her second story, what aspect of it bothers Lily?
2. When Lily comes downstairs in the beginning of Chapter 29, what does she find Halmoni doing?
3. In the tiger's second story, what calls to the girl?
4. In Chapter 38, when Lily explains that it feels like no matter how tight she tries to squeeze her heart to hold it together, it just keeps crumbling away, what earlier conversation does this remind the reader of?
5. On page 270, Halmoni says that she has seen her "umma." From context, what must this word mean?
Short Essay Questions
1. As Halmoni lies dying in Chapter 41, what gesture does Sam make with the necklace that has a symbolic meaning, and what is that meaning?
2. Why does Lily want to throw away the rice cakes before even baking them, and how does Ricky convince her not to?
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 do Ricky and his friends say at the library that upsets Lily, and how does she react?
5. In Chapter 32, when Joan tells Lily that her actions at the library are more like something Sam would do, what does Lily realize?
6. What does Joan tell Lily and Sam on the way home from the restaurant in Chapter 24, and how does Sam react?
7. In Chapter 26, why does Sam not tell Joan when she catches Lily sneaking downstairs in the middle of the night?
8. What happens when Joan comes upstairs to see what the noise is in Chapter 37?
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 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?
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 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 2
Write an essay that affirms, refutes, or qualifies the following statement: "Lily and Ricky become friends quickly because they have more in common than they understand when they first meet." Defend your claims with evidence from the text.
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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