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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. Why does Plum turn down Carmen's invitation to join Carmen and her girlfriend for dinner?
(a) She feels sick from her antidepressant withdrawals.
(b) She does not like to eat at restaurants when dieting.
(c) She thinks Carmen does not really want her to come.
(d) She is uncomfortable with the couple's public displays of affection.

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

3. What is the title of the booklet that enrages the woman at the Baptist Diet meeting and causes her to leave?
(a) When I'm Thin.
(b) Why I Need to Change.
(c) Nobody Wants to Be Fat.
(d) Five Reasons I Hate My Life.

4. When Verena asks Plum what would happen if she is already living her real life and will never lose weight, what is Plum's reply?
(a) She replies that she would never leave her apartment.
(b) She replies that she would move into The Calliope House for good.
(c) She replies that she would not want to live anymore.
(d) She replies that she would celebrate letting go of the obsession.

5. What method is used by the Baptist Diet meeting leader to determine how much weight Plum needs to lose?
(a) A measurement of her metabolic rate.
(b) A software program developed by Eulayla's brother.
(c) A measurement of her body fat percentage.
(d) The Body Mass Index.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Plum?

2. Whose idea had it been to give Plum a copy of Adventures in Dietland?

3. What does Verena offer to give to Plum if Plum follows what Verena calls "the New Baptist Plan" (92)?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Plum mean when she says that it takes her awhile to "fully inhabit" (83) her New York life again after she finishes speaking to her mother on the phone?

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

10. What act does Dr. Ormond Brown believe has precipitated the murders of Michael Simmons and Davis Green?

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