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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Eat Me,” pages 266-307.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What nickname does Sana often call Plum?
(a) Plummy.
(b) Sugar Plum.
(c) Plum Punch.
(d) Professor Plum.

2. What is distinctive about the room in which hardcore porn videos are projected 24 hours a day within The Calliope House?
(a) It is enormous.
(b) It is painted black.
(c) It is lit with only red lighting.
(d) It is circular.

3. Verena tells Plum that "the weight-loss industry is the most" what type of "failed industry in history" (98)?
(a) Sexist.
(b) Egregious.
(c) Profitable.
(d) Dangerous.

4. Plum states that after being underground, she now finds what object to be "wholesome and pure" (207)?
(a) A grape.
(b) A pear.
(c) A plum.
(d) An apple.

5. Whom does Verena name as the woman who wrote that "It's more difficult to kill a phantom than a reality" (292)?
(a) Louise Erdrich.
(b) Emily Dickinson.
(c) Eudora Welty.
(d) Virginia Woolf.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose mother is Soledad, the woman who was serving in the military in Afghanistan at the time of her daughter's rape?

2. What does Plum do immediately after she mails around 50 books to her teenage correspondents?

3. When Verena asks Plum what would happen if she is already living her real life and will never lose weight, what is Plum's reply?

4. With what remaining reminder is Plum left after her altercation with the man on the subway platform?

5. What connection does Plum say she shares with Julia and with none of the other women associated with The Calliope House?

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