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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 room of the house becomes the central gathering place once Plum moves into The Calliope House?
(a) Her basement apartment.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) The back patio.
(d) The parlor.

2. In what room is the namesake of The Calliope House carved into the wall?
(a) In the foyer.
(b) In Plum's bedroom.
(c) In the library.
(d) In the kitchen.

3. Whose mother is Soledad, the woman who was serving in the military in Afghanistan at the time of her daughter's rape?
(a) Jennifer.
(b) Leeta.
(c) Luz.
(d) Tina.

4. What forgotten item does Plum find within an interior pocket of her backpack while trying to pay at the diner?
(a) Verena's check.
(b) Leeta's pair of tights.
(c) Her weight loss tokens.
(d) Her Baptist card.

5. With whom had Soledad worked at a women's clinic in her role as a rape crisis counselor?
(a) Julia.
(b) Luz.
(c) Leeta.
(d) Plum.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Plum say she can tell about the sales clerk at the plus-size clothing store?

2. What action does Dr. Ahmad tell Plum she will be unable to take after her breast lift and implant surgeries?

3. With what remaining reminder is Plum left after her altercation with the man on the subway platform?

4. When Verena begins to pay a salary to Plum, how much does she make, compared to her salary working as Kitty's ghostwriter?

5. When the man on the subway platform refers to Plum as a "that" (148), what is the man wearing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Plum see while following Kitty into a coffeehouse that stops Plum in her tracks?

2. How does the theme of misplaced female envy come into play within the author's depiction of Plum's dream about being skinny?

3. Discuss Plum's comments about her ability to be "like the lilac negligee woman" (234) from the lingerie ads or like Leeta.

4. What is ironic about Kitty's insistence that "all girls are beautiful" (241)?

5. What does Plum mean when she says that she will become "a different type of outlaw" (243)?

6. Who does Plum call when Verena tells Plum to call anyone who will notice she is missing once she moves into The Calliope House? What do her choices reveal about her life prior to connecting with the women of The Calliope House?

7. In what way is Plum already familiar with Marlowe before she meets her at Cafe Rose?

8. How does the author employ foreshadowing within the passage when Kitty calls Plum at home and asks her to come to Austen Media?

9. What does Marlowe mean when she says that the day her show was canceled was the best day of her life?

10. What is the story behind Marlowe's tattoo that reads, "Women don't want to be me, men don't want to fuck me" (133)?

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