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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Marya wait to tell her mother she started her period?
(a) A year.
(b) A couple of days.
(c) Six months.
(d) A month.

2. What does anorexia represent to the girls in the clinic and the outside world?
(a) They are out of control of their bodies.
(b) They are in control of their bodies.
(c) They are concerned about physical looks only.
(d) You are able to deny yourself food.

3. At the end of the chapter, what have Marya's parents decided they should do with her?
(a) Put her in a foster care home.
(b) Put her in an eating disorder treatment center.
(c) Send her to her grandmother.
(d) Send her to live with cousins.

4. When Marya is ________ she becomes pregnant?
(a) 14.
(b) 20.
(c) 12.
(d) 15.

5. Instead of focusing on getting better, what does Mayra practice while at Methodist's Treatment center?
(a) Her reading skills.
(b) Her writing ability.
(c) Her makeup skills.
(d) Her acting skills.

6. In Marya's opinion, what does the American Dream prompt women to do?
(a) Create unrealistic expectations.
(b) Lose weight to be successful.
(c) Hate themselves.
(d) Deny weight problems.

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

8. What does food do for many people?
(a) Nurtures them.
(b) Makes them feel very calm.
(c) Makes people feel calmer and nurtured.
(d) Makes them fat.

9. As a girl, how did Marya react to the way she was treating her body?
(a) She became depressed.
(b) She showed no sorrow.
(c) She hated herself for treating her body poorly.
(d) She became isolated from others.

10. Who does Marya often compare herself to in the book?
(a) The Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland.
(b) Alice from Alice in Wonderland.
(c) The Hare from Alice in Wonderland.
(d) The Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland.

11. Just as Marya uses Bulimia to fill an emotional void, she uses _____ in the same way.
(a) Sex.
(b) Food.
(c) Music.
(d) Love.

12. What happens at therapy with her parents?
(a) The parents begin to understand Marya's real problem.
(b) Marya places the blame on her mother.
(c) Marya realizes her parents are not to blame.
(d) Her parents fight and blame Marya.

13. What does Mayra still struggle with?
(a) Her feelings.
(b) Her parents.
(c) Her insomnia.
(d) Her eating disorders.

14. Marya believes that eating disorders are ____________.
(a) A way to be perfect.
(b) Excuses.
(c) Nuisances.
(d) Addictions.

15. To Marya, bulimia represents _________.
(a) Control.
(b) The end of her life.
(c) Passion.
(d) No control.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marya welcome about her stay at the hospital?

2. What does Marya call her doctor in the book?

3. What was the lowest weight that Mayra got down to?

4. Since many patients are bulimic, what must the doctors keep an eye on?

5. What does Marya reveal to her psychiatrist?

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