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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. On page 220, Joan refers to Halmoni as "eccentric." What does this mean is true about Halmoni?
2. What does Lily discover on the stairs when she comes down in the morning in Chapter 29?
3. In the beginning of Chapter 45, what household problem do Joan and the girls face?
4. What is Joan trying to tell Lily when Halmoni starts trying to make her eat a piece of kalbi?
5. When Lily asks her mother whether she was ever ashamed of Halmoni when she was young, what does Joan answer?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. In Chapter 39, what does Sam confess to Lily about her response to their father's death?
3. In the tiger's second story, who is the girl and what happens to her?
4. When Lily gets ready to go downstairs in Chapter 26, what similarity does she recognize to Halmoni's story, and how does it make her feel?
5. In Chapter 41, what does Lily tell the tiger about how she has changed and her feelings about this change?
6. Even if the stories did not make Halmoni's physical illness go away, in what sense have they healed her?
7. When Lily returns to Halmoni's hospital room in Chapter 42, what does Halmoni tell Lily about her own mother and about Lily also seeing her?
8. When Lily sees Rick Everett in Chapter 34, what does she immediately say to him, and what is his response?
9. 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?
10. When Lily gets to the hospital in Chapter 41, what two things tell her that Halmoni is dying?
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 symbolic significance of the library in When You Trap a Tiger. Support your ideas with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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