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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 does Rachel love observing about Miriam?

2. What baked good does Rachel buy for Shabbat?

3. Who are the Joshes?

4. Who owns Yo!Good?

5. What does Rachel eat the morning after Shabbat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Rachel's mother instill in her?

2. What matters most to the narrator?

3. What does Rachel's mother text her every day?

4. What is the Peppermint Plotz?

5. How does Rachel feel about mothers and daughters with close relationships?

6. What does Rachel decide after Miriam makes her an ice cream sundae?

7. Where does the narrator work?

8. How does Rachel feel about Miriam's family while attending Shabbat with them?

9. How does the narrator curb her hunger?

10. What does Rachel's therapist suggest she do for 3 months?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you explore Rachel's relationship to food. What is the nature of this relationship, and in what ways is it a positive or negative one?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you explore Rachel's restrictive eating regimen. In what ways do her eating habits signal that she has an unhealthy relationship to food?

Essay Topic 3

Healing from eating disorder and mental illness is at the heart of this novel. Analyze how the author develops and strengthens the theme of healing through the plot and characters.

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