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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. Why does Marya believe that being wealth rather than poverty leads to being thin?
(a) Wealthy people enjoy more fun experiences.
(b) Poor people have poor diets.
(c) Wealthy people can afford gym memberships and trainers.
(d) Poor people are born fat.

2. What does Marya reveal to her psychiatrist?
(a) She is crazy.
(b) She hates her body.
(c) She is bulimic.
(d) She has a lot of unprotected sex.

3. How did Mayra's parents use Mayra?
(a) To manipulate each other.
(b) To get money from their parents.
(c) To live out their own childhood dreams.
(d) To get money from the government.

4. What tone is the Interlude written in?
(a) Angry.
(b) Tired.
(c) Shameful.
(d) Regretful.

5. Marya's mother thinks __________ is responsible for Marya's eating disorder.
(a) Her.
(b) Marya's grandmother.
(c) Marya.
(d) Her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. To Marya, bulimia represents _________.

2. How did Mayra's parents try to reward her?

3. In a ballet class, what does four-year-old Mayra feel about her own body?

4. What doctor will not help Marya at Methodist?

5. As a girl, how did Marya react to the way she was treating her body?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Marya realize about those around her from her past?

2. To add to her sex and eating addictions, what else happens to Marya?

3. How does the novel begin?

4. What does Marya use besides bulimia to fill a void in her life?

5. What action gets the story moving quickly?

6. What actions affect Marya while growing up?

7. When a friend finally tells a school counselor about Marya's problem, how does Marya feel?

8. What causes Marya to be obsessed by sex?

9. What is very different about life in the clinic and how it might make a person feel like they have no privacy?

10. When Marya looks at her file, what does she see?

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