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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 Lily is outside the hospital talking to the tiger in Chapter 41, what contradictory feelings does she express?

2. What does Lily realize when she sees the tiger at the beginning of Chapter 27?

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

4. What does Joe compare stories to in Chapter 30?

5. When Lily is looking out the window as Halmoni is dying, what does she see?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. When Lily gets to the hospital in Chapter 41, what two things tell her that Halmoni is dying?

4. In Chapter 41, what realization does Lily come to about the tiger's identity, and what clues help her figure it out?

5. In Chapter 41, what does Lily tell the tiger about how she has changed and her feelings about this change?

6. 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)?

7. 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?

8. In Chapter 40, what evidence is there that the tiger might actually be real?

9. 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?

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 symbolic role of food in the novel. Support your ideas with evidence from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you compare and contrast Lily's home with Ricky's home and explore what significance their similarities and differences have. Support your ideas with evidence from the text.

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