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

2. What theory about the tiger's appearances outside of their car does Lily explain in Chapter 40?

3. When Halmoni sees Lily's necklace in Chapter 29, what does she ask her?

4. On the seventh night after Halmoni dies, what favorite food does Ricky text Lily about?

5. What does Lily have to substitute for bean paste in her rice cakes?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In the beginning of Chapter 40, what is Lily's plan to get herself and Sam to the hospital?

4. In Chapter 39, what does Sam confess to Lily about her response to their father's death?

5. In Chapter 41, what does Lily tell the tiger about how she has changed and her feelings about this change?

6. 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?

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

8. When Lily gets to the hospital in Chapter 41, what two things tell her that Halmoni is dying?

9. In Chapter 26, why does Sam not tell Joan when she catches Lily sneaking downstairs in the middle of the night?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Write an essay in which you explain Halmoni's comment, on page 270, that Lily's special power is that she can "see." Give examples from throughout the text that support your interpretation of Halmoni's words.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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