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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. In what location does Plum have the nervous breakdown that causes her to consider committing suicide?
(a) At the university health clinic.
(b) At the gym.
(c) At the university library.
(d) At the supermarket.

2. How many fashion magazines are published by Austen Media?
(a) Nine.
(b) Seven.
(c) Eight.
(d) Six.

3. What does Julia have tattooed all over her chest?
(a) Hearts.
(b) Eternity symbols.
(c) Roses with thorns.
(d) Knives.

4. What type of surgery do Julia and her sisters undergo as they each reach their 21st birthdays?
(a) Preventative double mastectomies.
(b) Breast implant surgeries.
(c) Hysterectomies.
(d) Appendectomies.

5. After what number week of her Baptist Diet does Plum lose every ounce of energy?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Six.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. What quality does Plum say has always defined her?

2. How long does the Baptist Diet meeting leader tell Plum it will take for her to lose all the weight?

3. In what British newspaper are photos of topless young women always published on page three?

4. What excuse does Erica use to get Plum to come to the Austen Media offices?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. How does the terrorist organization known as Jennifer claim responsibility for the murders of Michael Simmons and Davis Green?

4. What is the significance of Leeta's name?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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