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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. Whose idea had it been to give Plum a copy of Adventures in Dietland?
2. What is the name of the enormous room in which Plum discovers Julia?
3. How much money does Plum say is rumored to be within Verena's inherited fortune?
4. How old is Verena?
5. What word is written on the wadded up pieces of paper found within the throats of both Michael Simmons and Davis Green?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the author's purpose for including the enormous list of lipstick colors within the narrative?
2. What allusion is being made within the line, "On top of a cabinet, a large orchid was trapped under a bell jar" (85) and what is the author's purpose for using it?
3. Describe Plum's job at Austen Media and how she comes to inhabit it.
4. What information does Julia reveal about Leeta during her first meeting with Plum?
5. Discuss the significance of Plum's clothing organization choices in the first part of the novel.
6. What has always been Plum's dream career?
7. How does the motif of the italicized word "Burst!" (42) coincide with the theme of self-hatred?
8. What is the significance of the news story about Jayson Fox, the young rap star from Los Angeles?
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 is the identifying feature of Leeta's appearance?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the author's choice to tell the story of Dietland using the first-person point of view. What elements of the novel's themes lend themselves to this choice and what is the author's intended effect on the reader?
Essay Topic 2
Look carefully at the passages of the novel that describe Plum's responses to the teenage girls who write questions to Kitty. What is the author's purpose for discussing at length the nature of Plum's role as a ghostwriter for Kitty?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze the novel Dietland from an Existential perspective. What elements of life does it suggest hold the most meaning and why?
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