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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When Plum remarks that she feels "weird" (143) after going to the waxing salon, to what is she referring?
(a) Her tinted eyelashes.
(b) Her Brazilian wax results.
(c) Her bleached eyebrows.
(d) Her hairless arms.

4. What is the name of Plum's first blind date?
(a) Joseph.
(b) Jeffrey.
(c) Alan.
(d) Preston.

5. What nickname does Sana often call Plum?
(a) Plum Punch.
(b) Sugar Plum.
(c) Professor Plum.
(d) Plummy.

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

7. 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.

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

9. Leeta ends up being sought by authorities because she confesses what piece of information to her roommate?
(a) She is Jennifer.
(b) She wants to assassinate the president.
(c) She knows the identity of Jennifer.
(d) She helped murder Michael Simmons and Davis Green.

10. What is the name of the sitcom starring Marlowe that Plum says she used to watch as a little girl?
(a) Sadie.
(b) Ellie.
(c) Brownie.
(d) Martha.

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

12. What action had Marlowe taken during her time in Italy that had endangered her contract with NBC?
(a) She had given an interview to a rival broadcasting station.
(b) She had gotten a tattoo.
(c) She had cut off her hair.
(d) She had published an expose of NBC.

13. 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) Cheryl Crane-Murphy.
(d) Margarita Potapova-Green.

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

15. Marlowe tells Plum that fat women are not controlled by society and that in fact they are what?
(a) Blacklisted.
(b) Defiant.
(c) Ignored.
(d) Accomplices.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long does misogynist music play each morning at 7:30 am at The Calliope House?

2. What is the name of the foundation next door to The Calliope House that gets frequent bomb threats?

3. How did Sana sustain her facial scarring?

4. What topic of conversation does Plum say is discussed at The Calliope House each day during the time she lives there?

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

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