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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. What excuse does Erica use to get Plum to come to the Austen Media offices?
3. Why does Plum turn down Carmen's invitation to join Carmen and her girlfriend for dinner?
4. Plum says that the bariatric surgery will result in her stomach being the size of what object?
5. What is NOT one piece of evidence Dr. Brown cites as proof that his daughter Shonda's death had not been the result of suicide, despite the autopsy's conclusion?
Short Essay Questions
1. What act does Dr. Ormond Brown believe has precipitated the murders of Michael Simmons and Davis Green?
2. What is the significance of the news story about Jayson Fox, the young rap star from Los Angeles?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. What significant event happens in the spring of Plum's junior year of high school?
6. How does the author portray Eulayla Baptist's husband Allen as playing a major role in her torturous weight loss plan?
7. What does Plum say has always been her mother's perspective regarding Plum's body?
8. Discuss the difference between Alicia and Plum at the start of the novel.
9. Describe Plum's job at Austen Media and how she comes to inhabit it.
10. How does Janine's outburst at the Baptist Diet meeting foreshadow Plum's own coming changes?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Analyze Plum's feelings about finally letting go of Alicia and all that she represents. What message is the author sending about change and about one other theme of your choice?
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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