1. What excuse does Erica use to get Plum to come to the Austen Media offices?
(a) Plum needs to sign an insurance form.
(b) Kitty wants to meet with Plum about teen suicide prevention.
(c) Plum needs to fill out her new W-4 form.
(d) Plum is getting a raise.

2. Plum says that the bariatric surgery will result in her stomach being the size of what object?
(a) A walnut.
(b) A pea.
(c) A golf ball.
(d) A peanut.

3. What action had Marlowe taken during her time in Italy that had endangered her contract with NBC?
(a) She had gotten a tattoo.
(b) She had given an interview to a rival broadcasting station.
(c) She had cut off her hair.
(d) She had published an expose of NBC.

4. What is the name of Marlowe's son?
(a) Huck.
(b) Henry.
(c) Leviathan.
(d) Bill.

5. Before they go to the dermatologist, Marlowe and Plum go to a coffeehouse, but Plum cannot sit down to drink her iced coffee. Why can she not sit down?
(a) She is too excited for her fine-line-reducing facial.
(b) Her new Thinz undergarments are squeezing her too tightly.
(c) She is too nervous about her facial peel.
(d) There are no seats available after she lets Marlowe take the last stool.

Short Answer Questions

1. The simile that the author uses to describe how Plum feels when she is around women with "grown-up lives" (7) is "like a" what "floating in a jar of formaldehyde" (7)?

2. Marlowe tells Plum that fat women are not controlled by society and that in fact they are what?

3. After Eulayla's death, what words were scratched off of her gravestone by her fans?

4. What unexpected item does Marlowe bring to her meeting with Plum?

5. In what year was the Austen Corporation created?

(see the answer key)

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