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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. What is the name of the woman who has an angry outburst at the Baptist Diet meeting and leaves?
2. How much money does Plum say is rumored to be within Verena's inherited fortune?
3. What is Plum's last name?
4. What quality does Plum say has always defined her?
5. What type of structure is the Calliope House?
Short Essay Questions
1. What question does Julia ask when she writes to Plum under the guise of being a teenage fan of Kitty's and what is the result of her question?
2. What are Plum's mother's feelings regarding Plum's job at Austen Media?
3. What is the significance of the news story about Jayson Fox, the young rap star from Los Angeles?
4. 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?
5. What information does Julia reveal about Leeta during her first meeting with Plum?
6. How does Janine's outburst at the Baptist Diet meeting foreshadow Plum's own coming changes?
7. How does the motif of the italicized word "Burst!" (42) coincide with the theme of self-hatred?
8. Discuss the significance of Plum's clothing organization choices in the first part of the novel.
9. Discuss the difference between Alicia and Plum at the start of the novel.
10. What is the author's purpose for including the enormous list of lipstick colors within the narrative?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze the novel Dietland from an Existential perspective. What elements of life does it suggest hold the most meaning and why?
Essay Topic 2
Write a critical essay about the novel while using the critical power theory lens of feminist theory. Use textual evidence to back up your strong, specific claim regarding the novel's treatment of gender roles, the objectification of women, the male gaze, misogyny's role within society, or any other issues related to feminist theory that can be found in the book.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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