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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What surprising thing does Ricky tell Lily about his grandfather?
(a) He hunted tigers.
(b) He is Korean.
(c) He will be Lily's teacher in the fall.
(d) He dated Halmoni.

2. What side-effect of Halmoni's illness explains something that has been puzzling Lily about the basement?
(a) Her nausea.
(b) Her hallucinations.
(c) Her fatigue.
(d) Her paranoia.

3. What does Lily notice on Halmoni's nightstand in Chapter 8?
(a) A book.
(b) Pill bottles.
(c) A jewelry box.
(d) A frog figure.

4. In Halmoni's stories, who is "Unya"?
(a) The big sister.
(b) The sky god.
(c) The tiger.
(d) The little sister.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long before they moved did the girls know about their mother's plan to move?

2. What does Lily compare Sam to as they stand in the rain outside Halmoni's cottage?

3. What does the frog figure near Lily and Sam's picture guard?

4. When Lily was little, what did she think the library across the street looked like?

5. What does Halmoni tell Lily is the "bravest thing of all" (51)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the ways that the author foreshadows the revelation that Halmoni is sick?

2. What happens between Ricky and his father in the grocery store, and what does Halmoni tell them?

3. What kind of a trap do Lily and Ricky build, and where do they build it?

4. When Sam comes into the library looking for Lily, what is she mad about, and what temporarily distracts her from her anger?

5. In the story that the tiger tells Lily in Chapter 22, what sacrifice does the tiger-girl have to make, and how does it make Lily feel?

6. What does Lily find inside a pot in the box from the basement, and what does she think is inside?

7. What does Halmoni tell Lily that she stole, and why?

8. When Sam is doing Lily's hair in Chapter 20, what reasons does she give for disliking Halmoni's tiger story?

9. When Lily goes to the library and asks Ricky for help, what does he suggest, and what is her reaction?

10. When and why did Lily and Sam live with Halmoni, before?

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