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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lily say that causes Sam to tell Lily that she is naive?

2. What does Lily think she sees in the road?

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

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

5. Who suggests that the family eat at Dragon Thyme in Chapter 23?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the girls and their mother get to Halmoni's house, how does their mother get them inside, and what does it reveal to the girls?

2. When Sam and Lily's mother is trying to get the girls out of the car at Halmoni's, what happens that shows how Lily gets put in the middle of Sam and their mother's fights?

3. What events in Chapter 9 make Lily feel like her mother does not really know her?

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

5. When Lily tells Halmoni about seeing the tiger again, what does Halmoni do?

6. 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?

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

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

9. What does Lily learn in Chapter 9 about her grandmother's immigration to the United States?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about what Lily learns from Joe, the librarian. Be sure to consider more than his direct advice to her--think about how he behaves and what other characters say about him, too. Support your ideas with textual evidence.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you analyze the book's messages about what it means to be "prepared" to die. Support your claims with evidence from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you analyze the symbolic significance of the white streak in Sam's hair. Support your claims with evidence from the text.

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