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

2. What word does Verena ask Plum to repeat until she feels comfortable uttering it?
(a) Fat.
(b) Obese.
(c) Writer.
(d) Woman.

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

4. What is Plum's last name?
(a) Kiefer.
(b) Kingsolver.
(c) Kettle.
(d) Kaywright.

5. How does Plum meet Carmen?
(a) Carmen marries Plum's brother.
(b) In college.
(c) They attend the same support group meetings.
(d) They both work at Austen Media.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How does Plum describe the hair of the girl who has been following her?

3. What is the name of the enormous room in which Plum discovers Julia?

4. What does Julia have tattooed all over her chest?

5. How many years has it been since Plum set foot inside her childhood home on Harper Lane?

Short Essay Questions

1. What quality of The Calliope House does Verena say had made her choose it as the location for her feminist collective?

2. What does Plum say has always been her mother's perspective regarding Plum's body?

3. What is ironic about Plum's reaction to her encounter with Janine at the Baptist Diet meeting?

4. What is the significance of the news story about Jayson Fox, the young rap star from Los Angeles?

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

6. How does the motif of the italicized word "Burst!" (42) coincide with the theme of self-hatred?

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

8. Discuss the difference between Alicia and Plum at the start of the novel.

9. What information does Julia reveal about Leeta during her first meeting with Plum?

10. How does Janine's outburst at the Baptist Diet meeting foreshadow Plum's own coming changes?

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