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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. 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 one-quarter of what she made with Kitty.
(b) She now makes twice what she made with Kitty.
(c) She now makes triple what she made with Kitty.
(d) She now makes half what she made with Kitty.

2. What forgotten item does Plum find within an interior pocket of her backpack while trying to pay at the diner?
(a) Verena's check.
(b) Her Baptist card.
(c) Her weight loss tokens.
(d) Leeta's pair of tights.

3. How old does Plum say Sana was when she endured her facial scarring?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 21.
(c) 13.
(d) 36.

4. For what reason do Marlowe and Plum get kicked out of the Strippercise class?
(a) Marlowe makes unpopular comments.
(b) They are laughing too loudly.
(c) Plum whistles at the male janitor who walks by.
(d) They refuse to participate.

5. When Plum asks Julia why she had asked Plum for the 52,000 email addresses of Kitty's readers, what is Julia's reply?
(a) She says that she had wanted to test Plum to see if she could be trusted.
(b) She says that she had wanted to send the teen girls copies of Riot Grrl Magazine.
(c) She says that she had wanted to turn over the addresses to Jennifer for recruiting purposes.
(d) She says that she had wanted to respond to all of the messages that Plum had deleted.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which dress does Plum choose when Verena asks her to bring one of Alicia's dresses to her meeting with Marlowe?

2. Before her outing with Marlowe, Plum has not worn high heels since what event in her life?

3. 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?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the arc of Plum's writing career over the course of the novel.

2. What is the author's purpose for including a call from the bariatric surgery office right after what Plum terms to be "a perfect trip to the mall" (237)?

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

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

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

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. Who does Plum call when Verena tells Plum to call anyone who will notice she is missing once she moves into The Calliope House? What do her choices reveal about her life prior to connecting with the women of The Calliope House?

8. What is the significance of Plum's response to the little girl on the bus who tells her mother to "look at that big lady" (233)?

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

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

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