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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Chapters 32-39.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term is it reasonable to apply to the situation Lily describes when she says that she does not understand how Halmoni can be the only person who really sees her and yet also the person who makes her mother feel forgotten?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Personification.
(c) Irony.
(d) Juxtaposition.

2. What does Lily do at the end of Chapter 9 when she breaks the mug?
(a) Apologizes to her grandmother.
(b) Hides it in the trash.
(c) Asks Sam to get rid of it.
(d) Pretends that she does not know what happened to it.

3. How does Lily get Jensen out of the way so that she can talk to Ricky?
(a) She asks Jensen to get her a snack.
(b) She asks Jensen to find her a book.
(c) She tells Jensen that Joe needs her.
(d) She tells Jensen that she thinks she left her phone in the staff room.

4. In Halmoni's story in Chapter 8, who is the original storyteller?
(a) The tiger.
(b) A princess in the sky.
(c) The sky god.
(d) The stars.

5. What does Lily say to Ricky in Chapter 19 that makes him feel like he needs to tell her that he is not "stupid" (133)?
(a) That real life is not like comic books.
(b) That she has never heard of anyone failing the sixth grade.
(c) That tigers are actually very dangerous.
(d) That reading is easy and he just has to try harder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the older man who works at the library?

2. Why is Sam scared to drive herself and Lily to the hospital?

3. Lily thinks that her mother would call Jensen an "unrelenting optimist" (65). What does this mean?

4. When Lily goes down to see the tiger at the end of Chapter 33, what does she find?

5. When Lily asks her mother whether she was ever ashamed of Halmoni when she was young, what does Joan answer?

(see the answer key)

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