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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. For what magazine had Leeta worked before being hired as Julia's assistant?

2. Plum says that her daily activities have kept her within what radius of her house for many years?

3. How much money does Plum say is rumored to be within Verena's inherited fortune?

4. How many fashion magazines are published by Austen Media?

5. Who puts the names and photos of Michael Simmons and Davis Green online?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the terrorist organization known as Jennifer claim responsibility for the murders of Michael Simmons and Davis Green?

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

5. Discuss the significance of Plum's clothing organization choices in the first part of the novel.

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Determine the author's message regarding violent vigilanteism in pursuit of gender equality. If she does not approve, prove it with evidence from the text and discuss the actions she presents as alternatives. If she does approve, prove it with evidence from the text and discuss the justification she provides for such an extreme position.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the author's use of humor alongside humanist messages within the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the interplay between the resolution of the novel and the author's choice of narrator to relay the narrative. How does the author employ each and how does their juxtaposition help the author get across a main message of the novel?

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