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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 additional circumstance makes it even harder for Sam to drive herself and Lily to the hospital?
(a) It is raining hard.
(b) She burned her hand cooking with Halmoni.
(c) She has never driven in the dark.
(d) She hurt her hand climbing back into the house.

2. When Lily thinks she hears the tiger's voice again at the end of the book, whose voice is she really hearing?
(a) Joan's.
(b) Halmoni's.
(c) Sam's.
(d) Her own.

3. When Sam pretends to hand a star to Lily in Halmoni's hospital room, what is she saying with this gesture?
(a) That she is playing along in order to be a good older sister.
(b) That Lily should be the one to tell the story.
(c) That she now believes in the same magic that Lily believes in.
(d) That Lily is the one that Halmoni loves best.

4. When Lily goes up to her bedroom in Chapter 36, what is the thumping noise that she hears?
(a) Sam climbing up the rope to their room.
(b) Halmoni falling in the kitchen.
(c) The tiger bounding up the stairs behind her.
(d) Joan coming in and slamming the front door.

5. From her comments to Lily in Chapter 33, what is it clear that Sam thinks she cannot believe in and be a grownup?
(a) God.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Miracles.
(d) Magic.

Short Answer Questions

1. On their way home from the restaurant, how much time does Joan say Halmoni probably has left?

2. When Sam talks about their father, what does Lily suddenly remember?

3. What is the first thing that Halmoni says that Lily thinks she might be wrong about?

4. In Chapter 30, who upsets Lily by referring to Halmoni as "The crazy witch lady" (208)?

5. In Lily's story in Chapter 43, who is the "new" sky god?

Short Essay Questions

1. Even if the stories did not make Halmoni's physical illness go away, in what sense have they healed her?

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

3. When Lily sees the tiger at the library, what does the tiger say she got wrong about Lily, and what is Lily's response?

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

5. 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?

6. When Lily sees Rick Everett in Chapter 34, what does she immediately say to him, and what is his response?

7. 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?

8. 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)?

9. At the end of the book, what ceremony from the beginning of the book is repeated in a new way?

10. What do Ricky and his friends say at the library that upsets Lily, and how does she react?

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