Reading Check and Short Answer questions on key points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.

Chapters 1-4

Reading Check

1. What town does Jam live in?

2. What do the people in Jam’s town call those who defeated the monsters?

3. What part of her mother's own body does Jam recognize in her mother’s painting?

4. Whose house does Pet tell Jam they need to go to at the end of Chapter 3?

5. According to Bitter and Aloe, who has the power to send Pet back through the painting?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. What is different about the way Jam communicates with her mother versus the way she communicates with most other people?

2. How does Jam end up getting blood on her mother’s painting?

3. When the creature realizes that Jam thinks of it as a monster, what does it tell her?

4. When Jam hears her parents arguing at night in Chapter 3, what does she learn about her and her mother’s roles in allowing Pet to come to life in their world?

5. Why do Jam’s parents believe that Pet has arrived in the wrong time period?