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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What activity does Julia tell Plum that she hates to do during their conversation in Plum's bedroom?
(a) Apologizing.
(b) Swimming.
(c) Running.
(d) Writing.

2. How old does Plum say Sana was when she endured her facial scarring?
(a) 36.
(b) 13.
(c) 21.
(d) 2 months.

3. What room of the house becomes the central gathering place once Plum moves into The Calliope House?
(a) Her basement apartment.
(b) The back patio.
(c) The kitchen.
(d) The parlor.

4. What aspect of cooking does Plum love the most?
(a) Measuring.
(b) Knife work.
(c) Baking.
(d) Making omelettes.

5. What is the name of the reporter that Plum describes as being on television all day with Jennifer coverage, "as if she were covering a war" (156)?
(a) Shannon Cook-Martin.
(b) Chyanne Noble-Gaston.
(c) Margarita Potapova-Green.
(d) Cheryl Crane-Murphy.

6. What favor does Julia ask of Plum during their conversation in Plum's bedroom?
(a) She asks Plum to write the expose of Austen Media.
(b) She asks Plum to move in with her.
(c) She asks Plum to lend her $20,000.
(d) She asks Plum to spy on Verena and to report back to her.

7. Where does Plum immediately go when the women are allowed back into The Calliope House at dawn the morning after the bomb threat?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) The backyard.
(c) The shower.
(d) Her bedroom.

8. On what part of Marlowe's body is her tattoo that reads, "Women don't want to be me, men don't want to fuck me" (133)?
(a) Her left wrist.
(b) The back of her neck.
(c) Her left bicep.
(d) Her right ankle.

9. 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) There are no seats available after she lets Marlowe take the last stool.
(c) She is too nervous about her facial peel.
(d) Her new Thinz undergarments are squeezing her too tightly.

10. Before her outing with Marlowe, Plum has not worn high heels since what event in her life?
(a) Her junior prom.
(b) Her high school graduation.
(c) Her senior prom.
(d) Her college graduation.

11. What image does Plum say is a "reminder that the Jennifer phenomenon" (211) is not a joke?
(a) The image of men with guns hunting Leeta.
(b) The image of men with guns hunting Julia.
(c) The image of men with guns hunting Luz.
(d) The image of men with guns hunting Sana.

12. 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 published an expose of NBC.
(c) She had given an interview to a rival broadcasting station.
(d) She had cut off her hair.

13. What quality is present within all of the clothes Plum chooses when she goes shopping?
(a) Stretchy.
(b) Brightly-colored.
(c) Patterned.
(d) Neutrally-colored.

14. When Plum emerges from her clothes-shopping trip in her new red dress, she says that for the first time, she does not mind doing what?
(a) Being herself.
(b) Being noticed.
(c) Letting her freak flag fly.
(d) Taking up space.

15. Who delivers the insult that Marlowe ends up incorporating into her tattoo?
(a) Her mother.
(b) An NBC executive.
(c) A reporter.
(d) Her sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what reason do Marlowe and Plum get kicked out of the Strippercise class?

2. When the man on the subway platform refers to Plum as a "that" (148), what is the man wearing?

3. When Plum gushes to Marlowe about how beautiful she had been on her show, Marlowe tells her that it had taken a what to make her look the way she had?

4. Chronologically, what event is found to be the first in the series of Jennifer-related events?

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

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