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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how long does misogynist music play each morning at 7:30 am at The Calliope House?
(a) One minute.
(b) Two minutes.
(c) Three minutes.
(d) Thirty seconds.

2. What part of Plum's body does the esthetician NOT wax when Marlowe takes Plum to the waxing salon?
(a) Her privates.
(b) Her legs.
(c) Her nose.
(d) Her underarms.

3. What object does Plum steal from Verena's desk just before she flees from The Calliope House in her new white poplin dress?
(a) A book about dieting.
(b) A letter opener.
(c) A bottle of Dabsitaf.
(d) A pen.

4. What nickname does Sana often call Plum?
(a) Plummy.
(b) Sugar Plum.
(c) Plum Punch.
(d) Professor Plum.

5. What quality is present within all of the clothes Plum chooses when she goes shopping?
(a) Neutrally-colored.
(b) Stretchy.
(c) Brightly-colored.
(d) Patterned.

6. Who delivers the insult that Marlowe ends up incorporating into her tattoo?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her mother.
(c) An NBC executive.
(d) A reporter.

7. What action had Marlowe taken during her time in Italy that had endangered her contract with NBC?
(a) She had gotten a tattoo.
(b) She had cut off her hair.
(c) She had published an expose of NBC.
(d) She had given an interview to a rival broadcasting station.

8. When Plum emerges from her clothes-shopping trip in her new red dress, she says that for the first time, she does not mind doing what?
(a) Letting her freak flag fly.
(b) Being noticed.
(c) Being herself.
(d) Taking up space.

9. What favor does Julia ask of Plum during their conversation in Plum's bedroom?
(a) She asks Plum to move in with her.
(b) She asks Plum to lend her $20,000.
(c) She asks Plum to spy on Verena and to report back to her.
(d) She asks Plum to write the expose of Austen Media.

10. What is the name of Plum's first blind date?
(a) Joseph.
(b) Jeffrey.
(c) Alan.
(d) Preston.

11. What is one place NOT mentioned in published rumors about Leeta's whereabouts?
(a) Venezuela.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Alaska.
(d) El Salvador.

12. Leeta ends up being sought by authorities because she confesses what piece of information to her roommate?
(a) She helped murder Michael Simmons and Davis Green.
(b) She knows the identity of Jennifer.
(c) She wants to assassinate the president.
(d) She is Jennifer.

13. When Verena begins to pay a salary to Plum, how much does she make, compared to her salary working as Kitty's ghostwriter?
(a) She now makes triple what she made with Kitty.
(b) She now makes one-quarter of what she made with Kitty.
(c) She now makes twice what she made with Kitty.
(d) She now makes half what she made with Kitty.

14. When Plum first sees the white poplin dress that has been remade in her size, she describes it as looking like a what?
(a) A cartoon.
(b) A balloon.
(c) A vision.
(d) A tent.

15. Whose mother is Soledad, the woman who was serving in the military in Afghanistan at the time of her daughter's rape?
(a) Luz.
(b) Jennifer.
(c) Leeta.
(d) Tina.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what aspect of Marlowe's story about Italy does Plum most strongly relate?

2. The dermatologist tells Plum that she is no longer allowed to take what action?

3. When Plum remarks that she feels "weird" (143) after going to the waxing salon, to what is she referring?

4. Where does Plum immediately go when the women are allowed back into The Calliope House at dawn the morning after the bomb threat?

5. In what room is the namesake of The Calliope House carved into the wall?

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