When You Trap a Tiger Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Tae Keller
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 199 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

When You Trap a Tiger Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Tae Keller
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 199 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 Halmoni plan to do with the pine nuts from the grocery store?

2. Where does Jensen recognize Sam from?

3. What subject does Jensen tutor in?

4. In Chapter 10, what does the reader learn Halmoni's name actually is?

5. What does Ricky say that he and Jensen have in common?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lily feel more sure about telling Halmoni about the tiger than she does about telling Sam?

2. What unusual thing does Ricky seem to wear a lot of, and why does he do it?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the symbolic role that rain plays in the novel. Support your assertions with evidence from the text.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about the symbolic significance of the library in When You Trap a Tiger. Support your ideas with evidence from the text.

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