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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. When Sam and Lily get to Halmoni's room, what is Joan doing?
2. Joan's search for the rice and the rice that Lily found on the stairs are examples of what plotting device?
3. In the tiger's second story, what does the grandmother put in the jars?
4. On page 171, what does Joan say that Lily thinks "moms are never supposed to say"?
5. Why does Sam feel responsible for Halmoni's collapse?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Lily want to throw away the rice cakes before even baking them, and how does Ricky convince her not to?
2. What things about Ricky's family does Lily learn on the way to his house in Chapter 25?
3. In Chapter 38, what does Lily learn about Sam's adventures outside the house at night?
4. In Chapter 40, what evidence is there that the tiger might actually be real?
5. What happens when Joan comes upstairs to see what the noise is in Chapter 37?
6. In Chapter 32, when Joan tells Lily that her actions at the library are more like something Sam would do, what does Lily realize?
7. In Chapter 26, why does Sam not tell Joan when she catches Lily sneaking downstairs in the middle of the night?
8. 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?
9. 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)?
10. In the tiger's second story, who is the girl and what happens to her?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about the symbolic role of food in the novel. Support your ideas with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that analyzes the many ways in which the characters in this book "leave" one another; include in your analysis a claim about what "leaving" means within the context of the book as a whole. Be sure to support your ideas with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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