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

2. In the beginning of Chapter 45, what household problem do Joan and the girls face?
(a) The stove catches fire.
(b) Mice invade their kitchen cupboards.
(c) The side window will not stay closed.
(d) The basement floods.

3. What other strange thing beside mud does Ricky say he has eaten?
(a) A worm.
(b) A cricket.
(c) A salamander.
(d) A cockroach.

4. In the tiger's second story, what does the girl ask her grandmother to do?
(a) Tell her about her mother.
(b) Sing to her.
(c) Teach her to make rice cakes.
(d) Tell her stories.

5. What new fact does Lily learn about Halmoni in Chapter 45?
(a) Halmoni is the one who decorated the library.
(b) Halmoni wanted to be a writer when she was a little girl.
(c) Halmoni is the one who gave Lily her name.
(d) Halmoni once ran for mayor of Sunbeam.

Short Answer Questions

1. On page 277, when Lily says that the stories were supposed to save Halmoni, what does Joan reply?

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

3. What technique is being used when the tiger refers to Halmoni as "my Ae-Cha"?

4. When Lily thinks she hears the tiger's voice again at the end of the book, whose voice is she really hearing?

5. What is the best description of Joan's attitude when she catches Lily in the kitchen in Chapter 28?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Why is Joan upset that Lily has done something mean to Ricky, in particular, and what does she say Lily will need to do?

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

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

6. Why does Lily want to throw away the rice cakes before even baking them, and how does Ricky convince her not to?

7. When Lily talked with Olivia at the restaurant, what did Olivia mention that Lily thought would never happen, and how does it actually happen in Chapter 29?

8. In the tiger's second story, who is the girl and what happens to her?

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

10. What does Joan tell Lily and Sam on the way home from the restaurant in Chapter 24, and how does Sam react?

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