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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What types of meetings does Plum attend in the basement of a church?
(a) Al-Anon meetings.
(b) Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
(c) Overeaters Anonymous meetings.
(d) Waist Watchers meetings.

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

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

4. How old is Plum?
(a) Nearly 30.
(b) Nearly 50.
(c) Nearly 20.
(d) Nearly 40.

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

6. 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)?
(a) Like a rotten tooth.
(b) Like a fetus.
(c) Like an abnormal brain.
(d) Like an animal.

7. 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 mother.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her great-grandmother.
(d) Her aunt.

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

9. The entryway of the Calliope House is covered with what color of wallpaper?
(a) Pink.
(b) Red.
(c) Purple.
(d) Black.

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

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

12. In which year of college does Plum have a nervous breakdown caused by heartbreak over a boy?
(a) Senior year.
(b) Sophomore year.
(c) Freshman year.
(d) Junior year.

13. What is the title of the booklet that enrages the woman at the Baptist Diet meeting and causes her to leave?
(a) Five Reasons I Hate My Life.
(b) Why I Need to Change.
(c) When I'm Thin.
(d) Nobody Wants to Be Fat.

14. Verena explains that the Calliope House used to serve as what type of organization between the 1920s and the 1970s?
(a) A house for unwed mothers.
(b) A dentistry practice.
(c) An orphanage.
(d) A wedding reception hall.

15. What method is used by the Baptist Diet meeting leader to determine how much weight Plum needs to lose?
(a) The Body Mass Index.
(b) A measurement of her metabolic rate.
(c) A software program developed by Eulayla's brother.
(d) A measurement of her body fat percentage.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Plum describe the hair of the girl who has been following her?

2. What type of structure is the Calliope House?

3. How old is Verena?

4. When Erica whispers to Plum, where does she tell her to go?

5. What request does Julia make of Plum the first time they meet?

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