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

2. How many teenage girls' email addresses does Plum have as a result of her position at Austen Media?
(a) 25,997.
(b) 12,438.
(c) 52,407.
(d) 36,897.

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

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

5. After Eulayla's death, what words were scratched off of her gravestone by her fans?
(a) Beloved Mother.
(b) Rest in Peace.
(c) Beloved Wife.
(d) Beloved Daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Verena?

2. When Erica whispers to Plum, where does she tell her to go?

3. How does Plum reply when Verena asks her what Alicia will be able to do as a skinny person, that Plum cannot?

4. In what New York City burrough does Plum live?

5. What is NOT an item listed as dangerous to dieters within the Baptist Plan pamphlets Plum is given?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. What allusion is being made within the line, "On top of a cabinet, a large orchid was trapped under a bell jar" (85) and what is the author's purpose for using it?

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

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