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

2. What word does Aloe use in speaking with Bitter about Pet that is meant to mean "to be irritated or angry at"?
(a) Stammer.
(b) Vent.
(c) Vex.
(d) Hurt.

3. What does Jam's mother tell her a monster looks like?
(a) They always look large.
(b) They never look like people - they always look like animals.
(c) They always have wings.
(d) They do not look like anything.

4. How does Jam usually treat the books she checks out from the library?
(a) She sometimes loses them when she lets other people borrow them.
(b) She sometimes writes in the margins.
(c) Gently.
(d) Roughly.

5. Why is Hibiscus respected in town?
(a) He was an angel.
(b) He was a painter.
(c) He was a police officer.
(d) He was a singer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had the revolution in Lucille been like?

2. What does Pet tell Jam to look for with Redemption?

3. What does Bitter say to Jam the first time Jam shows her the pictures from her library books of the angels?

4. What is one thing Jam experiences as part of her gender transition?

5. What does Aloe make for Jam for breakfast in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Aloe and Bitter react to seeing Pet for the first time?

2. What does Bitter tell Jam monsters look like?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Jam desperately want to know about the old angels in Chapter 1?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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