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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 image does Plum say is a "reminder that the Jennifer phenomenon" (211) is not a joke?
(a) The image of men with guns hunting Luz.
(b) The image of men with guns hunting Sana.
(c) The image of men with guns hunting Leeta.
(d) The image of men with guns hunting Julia.

2. Where does Plum immediately go when the women are allowed back into The Calliope House at dawn the morning after the bomb threat?
(a) The backyard.
(b) The shower.
(c) The kitchen.
(d) Her bedroom.

3. Who calls Marlowe to ask if she had masterminded the acts claimed by Jennifer?
(a) Her ex-wife.
(b) A journalist.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her sister.

4. When Plum asks Julia why she had asked Plum for the 52,000 email addresses of Kitty's readers, what is Julia's reply?
(a) She says that she had wanted to respond to all of the messages that Plum had deleted.
(b) She says that she had wanted to turn over the addresses to Jennifer for recruiting purposes.
(c) She says that she had wanted to test Plum to see if she could be trusted.
(d) She says that she had wanted to send the teen girls copies of Riot Grrl Magazine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long does misogynist music play each morning at 7:30 am at The Calliope House?

2. What unexpected item does Marlowe bring to her meeting with Plum?

3. Whom does Plum mentally force from the dressing room as she chooses a new wardrobe?

4. In what room is the namesake of The Calliope House carved into the wall?

5. Marlowe tells Plum that fat women are not controlled by society and that in fact they are what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe "the Jennifer effect" (231) and its implications.

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

3. What personal advice does Julia offer to Plum during their conversation in Plum's bedroom and how does Plum react?

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

5. What is the author's purpose for including the reporter Cheryl Crane-Murphy's remark, "As a committed Christian, it pains me to admit that I feel nothing but glee at the death of these pigs" (155)?

6. What does Plum mean when she says, "After years of not fighting back, I was coiled like a snake" (233)?

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

8. When Plum dreams that she has lost a lot of weight by using Dabsitaf, what is the significance of her dream?

9. Describe the arc of Plum's writing career over the course of the novel.

10. How is allusion used within the scene when Sana and Plum discuss Plum's fears that her longing for Alicia will return?

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