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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 Aloe tell Jam when she starts asking him about monsters?
(a) To make sure she tells her friends about angels.
(b) Not to grow up too quickly.
(c) To ask her teachers at school about the monsters.
(d) Not to get any more books from the library.

2. Why does Bitter remind Aloe that beings like Pet come to town?
(a) To herald an era of doom.
(b) To wreak havoc.
(c) To kill the leadership.
(d) For a reason - because monsters are there.

3. Who is Jam's best friend?
(a) Redemption.
(b) Moss.
(c) Joely.
(d) Hibiscus.

4. What do the teachers want children to aspire to be, as Jam understands it in Chapter 1?
(a) Angels.
(b) Painters.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Police.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Bitter named Bitter?

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

4. What is it hard to build a new world without doing?

5. Where does Jam sometimes like to stay while her mother is working?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Jam's teachers present the idea of the angels?

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

3. What does Aloe ask Bitter about her new painting in Chapter 1 that strikes Jam as odd?

4. What is one main way that Jam's father, Aloe, demonstrates his love and care for her?

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

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

7. What does everyone in Lucille think does not exist in the town any longer?

8. What do Bitter and Aloe tell Jam about Pet in Chapter 4?

9. Why does Pet tell Jam it needs her help in the hunt?

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

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