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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is stored in the room in which Plum discovers Julia?
(a) Yoga mats and meditation pillows.
(b) Ink.
(c) Files.
(d) Makeup.

3. What is lying across Plum's bed that embarrasses Plum the first time Verena visits Plum's apartment?
(a) A pile of candy bar wrappers.
(b) A new red dress much too small for Plum.
(c) A new yellow sweater much too small for Plum.
(d) A new black skirt much too small for Plum.

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

5. In what month does the novel begin?
(a) December.
(b) February.
(c) May.
(d) September.

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

7. After what number week of her Baptist Diet does Plum lose every ounce of energy?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Six.
(d) Five.

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

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

10. 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 grandmother.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) Her mother.

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

12. In what location does Plum have the nervous breakdown that causes her to consider committing suicide?
(a) At the university health clinic.
(b) At the gym.
(c) At the supermarket.
(d) At the university library.

13. How does Plum afford such an expensive apartment in New York City?
(a) She has two roommates.
(b) She lives off a settlement from a prior car accident.
(c) Her mother's cousin owns the apartment and charges Plum reduced rent.
(d) Her parents pay her rent.

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

15. Who sends Plum an email while pretending to be a teenage girl in need of help from Kitty?
(a) Erica.
(b) Leeta.
(c) Julia.
(d) Verena.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Plum meet Carmen?

2. What type of surgery do Julia and her sisters undergo as they each reach their 21st birthdays?

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

4. For what reason does Plum reject her father's offer for her to come visit him in Boise?

5. What does Verena reveal as Plum's first step on the "New Baptist Plan" (110)?

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