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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the woman who has an angry outburst at the Baptist Diet meeting and leaves?
(a) Leeta.
(b) Verena.
(c) Kitty.
(d) Janine.

2. 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 software program developed by Eulayla's brother.
(c) A measurement of her metabolic rate.
(d) A measurement of her body fat percentage.

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

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

5. How much money does Plum say is rumored to be within Verena's inherited fortune?
(a) $20,000,000.
(b) $2,000,000.
(c) $200,000,000.
(d) $60,000,000.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what location does Plum have the nervous breakdown that causes her to consider committing suicide?

3. What word does Verena ask Plum to repeat until she feels comfortable uttering it?

4. In what month is Plum's bariatric surgery scheduled?

5. How many fashion magazines are published by Austen Media?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the author's purpose for including the enormous list of lipstick colors within the narrative?

2. Describe Plum's job at Austen Media and how she comes to inhabit it.

3. What significant event happens in the spring of Plum's junior year of high school?

4. What are Plum's mother's feelings regarding Plum's job at Austen Media?

5. Discuss the significance of Plum's clothing organization choices in the first part of the novel.

6. How does the author portray Eulayla Baptist's husband Allen as playing a major role in her torturous weight loss plan?

7. What causes Julia to ask Plum if she will hand over the 50,000 plus email addresses of teenage girls who have written to Kitty?

8. What is the identifying feature of Leeta's appearance?

9. The night before the murders of Michael Simmons and Davis Green, Dr. Ormond Brown receives an email. What does the email contain and what is the author's implication about who has sent it?

10. What has always been Plum's dream career?

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