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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many fashion magazines are published by Austen Media?
2. What is the only color of clothes Plum wears at the time of the novel's beginning?
3. The simile that the author uses to describe how Plum feels when she is around women with "grown-up lives" (7) is "like a" what "floating in a jar of formaldehyde" (7)?
4. What is NOT one piece of advice Plum gives LuAnne when she writes to Plum to tell her that her stepbrother is sneaking into her room at night?
5. In what British newspaper are photos of topless young women always published on page three?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is ironic about Plum's reaction to her encounter with Janine at the Baptist Diet meeting?
2. What are Plum's mother's feelings regarding Plum's job at Austen Media?
3. Discuss the significance of Plum's clothing organization choices in the first part of the novel.
4. What is the author's purpose for including the enormous list of lipstick colors within the narrative?
5. What does Plum say has always been her mother's perspective regarding Plum's body?
6. What significant event happens in the spring of Plum's junior year of high school?
7. 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?
8. How does the motif of the italicized word "Burst!" (42) coincide with the theme of self-hatred?
9. What is the significance of the news story about Jayson Fox, the young rap star from Los Angeles?
10. Discuss the difference between Alicia and Plum at the start of the novel.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How do the themes of fellowship and collaboration function within the novel and what is the author's message regarding these themes?
Essay Topic 2
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Sarai Walker's novel Dietland. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the book.
Essay Topic 3
How is the topic of discovery treated within the novel and how does its treatment relate to the book's repeated allusions to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland?
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