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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. How does Rachel feel about Ayala?

2. What is The Crew?

3. What does Rachel eat the morning after Shabbat?

4. Where does Rachel go after Shabbat?

5. Who is Jace Evans?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the narrator curb her hunger?

3. What is the Golden Dragon?

4. What kind of makeup does Rachel apply to Miriam?

5. What does Miriam invite Rachel to her house for?

6. Why does Rachel eat her protein bar in the bathroom at a party?

7. Why is Adiv in Israel?

8. Where does Jace invite Rachel to after This Show Sucks?

9. Who is Ayala?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you explore Rachel's experience with therapy. What does she think of therapy, or her therapist in particular? Is it ultimately helpful? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you explore how Rachel's relationship to food changes throughout the novel. What prompts this shift, and how does she deal with it?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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