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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of Plum's post-weight-loss-surgery scars does Dr. Ahmad say will be the longest?
(a) Her breast lift scars.
(b) Her thigh tuck scars.
(c) Her brachioplasty scars.
(d) Her tummy tuck scar.

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

3. How many of the women affiliated with The Calliope House actually live there, including Plum?
(a) Just a few.
(b) One.
(c) Six.
(d) Twelve.

4. In what room is the namesake of The Calliope House carved into the wall?
(a) In the foyer.
(b) In the library.
(c) In Plum's bedroom.
(d) In the kitchen.

5. Marlowe tells Plum that she should have learned from Kitty by now that "being a woman means being a" (144) what?
(a) Martyr.
(b) Savior.
(c) A faker.
(d) Clown.

6. 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) The back of her neck.
(b) Her left wrist.
(c) Her right ankle.
(d) Her left bicep.

7. What topic of conversation does Plum say is discussed at The Calliope House each day during the time she lives there?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Food.
(c) Sizeism.
(d) Jennifer.

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

9. When Verena begins to pay a salary to Plum, how much does she make, compared to her salary working as Kitty's ghostwriter?
(a) She now makes half what she made with Kitty.
(b) She now makes one-quarter of what she made with Kitty.
(c) She now makes triple what she made with Kitty.
(d) She now makes twice what she made with Kitty.

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

11. 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 shower.
(c) Her bedroom.
(d) The backyard.

12. 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) Letting her freak flag fly.
(c) Taking up space.
(d) Being noticed.

13. What forgotten item does Plum find within an interior pocket of her backpack while trying to pay at the diner?
(a) Verena's check.
(b) Leeta's pair of tights.
(c) Her weight loss tokens.
(d) Her Baptist card.

14. 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) Margarita Potapova-Green.
(b) Chyanne Noble-Gaston.
(c) Shannon Cook-Martin.
(d) Cheryl Crane-Murphy.

15. 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 published an expose of NBC.
(d) She had cut off her hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. Just before Julia drifts off to sleep, she murmurs to Plum that she has always thought that Plum is what adjective?

2. Which dress does Plum choose when Verena asks her to bring one of Alicia's dresses to her meeting with Marlowe?

3. 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?

4. When Plum remarks that she feels "weird" (143) after going to the waxing salon, to what is she referring?

5. What part of Plum's body does the esthetician NOT wax when Marlowe takes Plum to the waxing salon?

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