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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 Lily is outside the hospital talking to the tiger in Chapter 41, what contradictory feelings does she express?
2. What important fact does Lily realize about Sam in Chapter 46?
3. In Chapter 38, when Lily explains that it feels like no matter how tight she tries to squeeze her heart to hold it together, it just keeps crumbling away, what earlier conversation does this remind the reader of?
4. In Chapter 34, what does Ricky advise Lily she should do to improve her tiger trap?
5. Whom does Sam suggest can drive her and Lily to the hospital?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What do Ricky and his friends say at the library that upsets Lily, and how does she react?
3. What happens when Joan comes upstairs to see what the noise is in Chapter 37?
4. Even if the stories did not make Halmoni's physical illness go away, in what sense have they healed her?
5. At the end of the book, what ceremony from the beginning of the book is repeated in a new way?
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 40, what evidence is there that the tiger might actually be real?
8. In the tiger's second story, who is the girl and what happens to her?
9. What does Halmoni tell Lily about the star jars in Chapter 35, and what does Lily do as a result in Chapter 36?
10. 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?
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 role that magic plays in the novel. Support your ideas with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that affirms, refutes, or qualifies the following statement: "Lily and Ricky become friends quickly because they have more in common than they understand when they first meet." Defend your claims with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about the book's thematic motif of courage or bravery. Support your ideas with evidence from the text.
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