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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had the revolution in Lucille been like?
(a) Slow and ponderous.
(b) Inevitable.
(c) Fast and furious.
(d) Both fast and slow.

2. What do Jam's parents say upon seeing Pet for the first time that shocks her?
(a) Pet looks cute.
(b) Pet looks harmless.
(c) It is a good thing that Pet is here.
(d) One of Bitter's paintings has come to life again.

3. What does Jam's mother do for a living?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Writer.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Artist.

4. Who is Jam's favorite librarian?
(a) Redemption.
(b) Beloved.
(c) Ube.
(d) Hibiscus.

5. How does Emezi describe the justice of the revolution in Chapter 5?
(a) Inevitable.
(b) Creeping like a fog.
(c) Swift.
(d) Rising like a sun over the hill in a loud morning.

6. What kinds of monuments did the angels erect in Chapter 1?
(a) Monuments of weapons.
(b) Monuments of angels.
(c) Monuments to victims of violence, and monuments with many names carved into them.
(d) Monuments to mucial composers.

7. What is one thing the angels in Jam's town banned?
(a) Firearms.
(b) Parks.
(c) Dessert.
(d) Helmets.

8. What does Jam come to believe about pictures?
(a) They can only be in black-and-white.
(b) They can only be in color.
(c) They can be peaceful.
(d) They can be misleading.

9. Who does most of the cooking in Jam's house?
(a) Aloe.
(b) Jam.
(c) Bitter.
(d) Hibiscus.

10. What is Jam worried about after she cuts herself and bleeds in the studio?
(a) Moss will find out.
(b) Redemption will find out.
(c) Hibiscus will find out.
(d) Her parents will find out.

11. What does Jam consider about secrets, herself, and her parents?
(a) She does not really know what a secret is.
(b) Her parents always keep secrets from her.
(c) She has never really had secrets from them before.
(d) She has often kept secrets from them.

12. What is it hard to build a new world without doing?
(a) Making people angry.
(b) Biding your time.
(c) Learning new things.
(d) Singing.

13. Where does Pet tell Jam it thinks the monster is?
(a) Her house.
(b) Redemption's house.
(c) Ube's house.
(d) Her school.

14. Who suggests Pet's name?
(a) Aloe.
(b) Hibiscus.
(c) Pet.
(d) Bitter.

15. Who does Jam desperately want to keep from finding out about Pet at first?
(a) Her teachers.
(b) Her parents.
(c) Ube.
(d) Hibiscus.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, what do Jam's parents make her do so they can talk to Pet alone?

2. How does Jam think her parents look the morning after Pet's appearance?

3. Who trains Redemption?

4. What critical piece of information do Jam's parents lack when they tell her to send Pet back?

5. What do the teachers want children to aspire to be, as Jam understands it in Chapter 1?

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