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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does the Baptist Diet meeting leader tell Plum it will take for her to lose all the weight?
(a) Nine months.
(b) Three months.
(c) Two years.
(d) One year.

2. What is Plum's last name?
(a) Kaywright.
(b) Kettle.
(c) Kiefer.
(d) Kingsolver.

3. Verena tells Plum that "the weight-loss industry is the most" what type of "failed industry in history" (98)?
(a) Egregious.
(b) Sexist.
(c) Profitable.
(d) Dangerous.

4. How does Plum reply when Verena asks her what Alicia will be able to do as a skinny person, that Plum cannot?
(a) She says Alicia will be able to walk down the street without hearing mean comments.
(b) She says Alicia will have a boyfriend.
(c) She says Alicia will be able to eat in public.
(d) She says Alicia will never want for money.

5. How many pounds is Plum told she needs to lose when she attends the Baptist Diet meeting?
(a) 40.
(b) 104.
(c) 66.
(d) 83.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Plum say is rumored to be within Verena's inherited fortune?

2. How many years has it been since Plum set foot inside her childhood home on Harper Lane?

3. What types of meetings does Plum attend in the basement of a church?

4. Where does Plum keep her clothes that fit?

5. What quality does Plum say has always defined her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of the news story about Jayson Fox, the young rap star from Los Angeles?

2. Discuss the significance of Plum's clothing organization choices in the first part of the novel.

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. The night before the murders of Michael Simmons and Davis Green, Dr. Ormond Brown receives an email. What does the email contain and what is the author's implication about who has sent it?

5. What question does Julia ask when she writes to Plum under the guise of being a teenage fan of Kitty's and what is the result of her question?

6. What significant event happens in the spring of Plum's junior year of high school?

7. What are Plum's mother's feelings regarding Plum's job at Austen Media?

8. What has always been Plum's dream career?

9. What does Plum mean when she says that it takes her awhile to "fully inhabit" (83) her New York life again after she finishes speaking to her mother on the phone?

10. What quality of The Calliope House does Verena say had made her choose it as the location for her feminist collective?

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