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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Eulayla's death, what words were scratched off of her gravestone by her fans?
(a) Rest in Peace.
(b) Beloved Mother.
(c) Beloved Wife.
(d) Beloved Daughter.

2. How many years has it been since Plum set foot inside her childhood home on Harper Lane?
(a) Two years.
(b) Eight years.
(c) Four years.
(d) Fourteen years.

3. What does Verena reveal as Plum's first step on the "New Baptist Plan" (110)?
(a) Eating everything she wants for twenty-four hours straight.
(b) Contacting anyone who has made fun of her body to demand an apology.
(c) Weaning herself off of antidepressants.
(d) Getting rid of her too-small clothing.

4. What quality does Plum say has always defined her?
(a) Invisibility.
(b) Politeness.
(c) Roundness.
(d) Oddity.

5. When Erica whispers to Plum, where does she tell her to go?
(a) Basement Two.
(b) Basement Three.
(c) Rooftop Level Two.
(d) Floor Sixteen.

6. Whose idea had it been to give Plum a copy of Adventures in Dietland?
(a) Verena.
(b) Leeta.
(c) Julia.
(d) Kitty.

7. With what two words do the pleas Plum receives from teenage girls always begin?
(a) Dear Plum.
(b) Dear Kitty.
(c) Dear Alicia.
(d) Dear Abby.

8. In what New York City burrough does Plum live?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Queens.
(c) Staten Island.
(d) Manhattan.

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

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

11. Verena tells Plum that if Plum has bariatric surgery, then she will no longer be the spitting image of which one of her family members?
(a) Her great-grandmother.
(b) Her aunt.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her mother.

12. At what time of day does Plum say she usually "slips into despair" (12) each day?
(a) Noon.
(b) 10 a.m.
(c) 3 p.m.
(d) Midnight.

13. What word does Verena ask Plum to repeat until she feels comfortable uttering it?
(a) Woman.
(b) Obese.
(c) Fat.
(d) Writer.

14. How many fashion magazines are published by Austen Media?
(a) Six.
(b) Nine.
(c) Seven.
(d) Eight.

15. What type of structure is the Calliope House?
(a) Three duplexes joined together.
(b) A warehouse.
(c) Two townhouses joined together.
(d) One large mansion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Plum keep clothes that are much too small for her?

2. Verena explains that the Calliope House used to serve as what type of organization between the 1920s and the 1970s?

3. Where does Plum keep her clothes that fit?

4. How does Plum afford such an expensive apartment in New York City?

5. What does Verena offer to give to Plum if Plum follows what Verena calls "the New Baptist Plan" (92)?

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