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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 Marlowe's infant son?

2. Plum states that after being underground, she now finds what object to be "wholesome and pure" (207)?

3. Just before Julia drifts off to sleep, she murmurs to Plum that she has always thought that Plum is what adjective?

4. For how long does misogynist music play each morning at 7:30 am at The Calliope House?

5. Marlowe tells Plum that fat women are not controlled by society and that in fact they are what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author employ foreshadowing within the passage when Kitty calls Plum at home and asks her to come to Austen Media?

2. What is the significance of Plum's ultrasound image?

3. How is allusion used within the scene when Sana and Plum discuss Plum's fears that her longing for Alicia will return?

4. In what way is Plum already familiar with Marlowe before she meets her at Cafe Rose?

5. What does Plum mean when she says that she will become "a different type of outlaw" (243)?

6. What is the author's purpose for including the reporter Cheryl Crane-Murphy's remark, "As a committed Christian, it pains me to admit that I feel nothing but glee at the death of these pigs" (155)?

7. What does Plum mean when she says, "After years of not fighting back, I was coiled like a snake" (233)?

8. To what television show is Plum alluding when she enters Victoria Secret and knows that she is "raising eyebrows" (234)?

9. Discuss Plum's comments about her ability to be "like the lilac negligee woman" (234) from the lingerie ads or like Leeta.

10. What is ironic about Kitty's insistence that "all girls are beautiful" (241)?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the novel's message concerning the link between mental and physical health?

Essay Topic 2

How do the themes of fellowship and collaboration function within the novel and what is the author's message regarding these themes?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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