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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 old is Verena?
2. Verena explains that the Calliope House used to serve as what type of organization between the 1920s and the 1970s?
3. In what New York City burrough does Plum live?
4. What is the title of the booklet that enrages the woman at the Baptist Diet meeting and causes her to leave?
5. 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)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What significant event happens in the spring of Plum's junior year of high school?
2. How does the motif of the italicized word "Burst!" (42) coincide with the theme of self-hatred?
3. What is the significance of the news story about Jayson Fox, the young rap star from Los Angeles?
4. The night before the murders of Michael Simmons and Davis Green, Dr. Ormond Brown receives an email. What does the email contain and what is the author's implication about who has sent it?
5. What quality of The Calliope House does Verena say had made her choose it as the location for her feminist collective?
6. How does the author portray Eulayla Baptist's husband Allen as playing a major role in her torturous weight loss plan?
7. What are Plum's mother's feelings regarding Plum's job at Austen Media?
8. 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?
9. 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?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explicate the theme of indoctrination within the novel, particularly in relation to the novel's protagonist. What is the author's message regarding societal indoctrination and how do you know?
Essay Topic 2
Sensory details are used frequently by the author in order to create vivid pictures of Plum's transformation in the reader's mind. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used by the author set a particular mood for each of the three scenes.
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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