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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 does the librarian seem to blame for young people not using the library very much?
(a) The library's poor collection.
(b) His own grouchiness.
(c) The internet.
(d) The library's location.

2. What subject does Jensen tutor in?
(a) Math.
(b) Language arts.
(c) Social studies.
(d) Science.

3. In the opening of the story, what are Sam and their mother fighting about?
(a) Sam's phone.
(b) Sam's friends.
(c) Moving to Washington.
(d) The new school the girls will go to.

4. Where does Halmoni tell Lily and Sam stories hide?
(a) At the bottom of their teacups.
(b) Among the stars.
(c) In their pockets.
(d) In the leaves of jungle trees.

5. In the beginning of Chapter 15, who does Lily overhear having a conversation?
(a) Halmoni and the tiger.
(b) Joan and Sam.
(c) Joan and Halmoni.
(d) Halmoni and Sam.

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is employed when Lily says "Nobody can resist Halmoni. She's like gravity" (25)?

2. What does Halmoni plan to do with the pine nuts from the grocery store?

3. In Chapter 11, why has Ricky come to the library?

4. In her story, how does Halmoni say she trapped the tigers?

5. What does Lily say Halmoni's house looks like?

Short Essay Questions

1. What feeling that Lily already struggled with in the library does Sam experience in the grocery store, and why?

2. In what way is Jensen mostly responsible for Lily getting to know Ricky in the library?

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

4. What does Lily learn about her grandmother in Chapter 15, and what decision does it cause her to make?

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

6. What does QAG stand for in this story, and why is it a mean thing for Sam to call Lily?

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

8. What incidents in Chapters 10 and 13 show Lily that people can be both good and bad?

9. When they are finally inside Halmoni's house, besides the fact that Halmoni is missing, what else strikes them as odd?

10. In this story, what is kosa, and why is it important?

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