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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 does Luz, the teenage victim of the gang-rape, commit suicide?

2. What quality is present within all of the clothes Plum chooses when she goes shopping?

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

4. What is the name of the foundation next door to The Calliope House that gets frequent bomb threats?

5. How many of the women affiliated with The Calliope House actually live there, including Plum?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Plum dreams that she has lost a lot of weight by using Dabsitaf, what is the significance of her dream?

2. What is the final step of the New Baptist Plan?

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

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

5. How does the theme of misplaced female envy come into play within the author's depiction of Plum's dream about being skinny?

6. What is the story behind Marlowe's tattoo that reads, "Women don't want to be me, men don't want to fuck me" (133)?

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

8. What does Plum see while following Kitty into a coffeehouse that stops Plum in her tracks?

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

10. Describe "the Jennifer effect" (231) and its implications.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the interplay between the resolution of the novel and the author's choice of narrator to relay the narrative. How does the author employ each and how does their juxtaposition help the author get across a main message of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the many instances of irony within the novel's narrative and analyze the author's purpose for including each instance you discuss.

Essay Topic 3

Trace the characterization arc of Plum’s character throughout the novel. Discuss whether she is a round or flat character and whether she is a static or dynamic character.

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