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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pet ask Jam when she opens the studio door in the morning in Chapter 4?
(a) If she will stab it.
(b) If she has food for it.
(c) Whether she will banish it.
(d) If she will get on its back.

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

3. Why does Jam know Pet will not hurt her?
(a) Ube told her.
(b) As long as they feed it it will be happy.
(c) It will not hurt anyone it is not hunting.
(d) That is the rule for painting-monsters.

4. What critical piece of information do Jam's parents lack when they tell her to send Pet back?
(a) The monster is in Redemption's house.
(b) Monsters never die unless a creature like Pet kills them.
(c) Monsters can fly.
(d) There are several monsters.

5. How does Jam begin to feel in Chapter 4 regarding her relationship with her parents?
(a) As if she might have to run away soon.
(b) Closer to them.
(c) The same as always.
(d) Divided from them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pet tell Jam it will do in Chapter 5?

2. What is Jam worried about after she cuts herself and bleeds in the studio?

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

4. What does Jam tell Pet in Chapter 4?

5. What has Jam said to Redemption that he holds in his hands?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Jam and Redemption often do together that she does as normal with him in Chapter 5?

2. What does Bitter do for a living and what is unusual about her work?

3. What do Aloe and Bitter vehemently deny that Pet asserts in Chapter 3?

4. What is Jam's mother, Bitter's, existence attributed to in Chapter 1?

5. In Chapter 5, what does Pet tell Jam is the first step to "seeing?"

6. What happens to Jam when she goes to see her mother's finished painting in Chapter 2?

7. What were some of Lucille's problems before they were corrected?

8. What does Jam first think of Pet when it emerges from the painting?

9. What are some of the things Jam and her family did during her gender transition?

10. Who is supposedly responsible for making Lucille a more just and peaceful place?

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