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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Since many patients are bulimic, what must the doctors keep an eye on?
(a) Patients throwing up in the bathroom.
(b) Patients gaining weight too quickly.
(c) Patients taking laxatives.
(d) Patients eating too much.

2. Since her blood pressure might drop suddenly, Marya could have ___________.
(a) A stroke.
(b) A heart attack.
(c) A diabetic reaction.
(d) A seizure.

3. Why is bulimia more realistic than anorexia?
(a) Anorexia makes other people nervous.
(b) Bulimia is easier to hide.
(c) Bulimia can be sustained for longer.
(d) Bulimia allows a person to give in to a body's desires for a short time.

4. To keep up appearances of normalcy, what do Marya's parents do?
(a) Stretch the boundaries of their idea of normal.
(b) Let Marya run the show.
(c) Send Marya to boarding school.
(d) Control Marya with all their rules.

5. Who persuades her to tell her parents about the disease?
(a) Her therapist.
(b) A school counselor.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) A good friend.

6. To Marya, what goes hand and hand with being rich or wealthy?
(a) Having fun.
(b) Being thin.
(c) Being Beauitful.
(d) Being healthy.

7. Why does Mayra realize that she does not like to be touched?
(a) She was sexually abused.
(b) She tries to dislike being touched because she yearns for it so much.
(c) She does not like for people to get close to her.
(d) She becomes fearful when she is touched.

8. 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.

9. At the age of 4, what does Marya claim to be?
(a) Stupid.
(b) Unsuccessful.
(c) Ugly.
(d) Fat.

10. What is not enough to cure eating disorders?
(a) Pills.
(b) Help from friends and family.
(c) Therapy.
(d) Pills and positive communication.

11. What influenced Marya's eating habits?
(a) Her experiences with boys.
(b) Her friends' teasing.
(c) Her father's berating her.
(d) Her mother's odd eating habits.

12. Where does Marya convince her parents to send her?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) California.
(c) Florida.
(d) New York.

13. As a result of her eating disorder, what would often happen to Marya?
(a) She would hit others.
(b) She would often fall.
(c) She would cough up blood.
(d) She would bite her fingernails.

14. To Mayra, what does sex do for her?
(a) Is pleasurable for her.
(b) Makes her feel trapped.
(c) Allows her to control men.
(d) Helps her feel a connection to men.

15. Before she leaves for winter break, what is Marya eating?
(a) Only fruit and vegetables.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Vegetables only.
(d) Cream, carrot sticks, celery sticks, and mustard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does anorexia represent to the girls in the clinic and the outside world?

2. What happens when Jane and Marya meet?

3. Many girls in the Interlochen community supported Marya's ______.

4. How do Marya's parents see her?

5. While in this location, who watches Marya?

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