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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens during Marya's pregnancy?
(a) Her father beats her causing her to loose the baby.
(b) Her body aborts her baby.
(c) She holds the baby until she is 6 months.
(d) She becomes very sick.

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

4. Where industry did Mayra's parents work in?
(a) Mining.
(b) Movies.
(c) The theatre.
(d) Public Relations.

5. Why does Marya keep trying to develop her eating disorders?
(a) They give her control over her body.
(b) They are the cool thing to have at school.
(c) They make her feel like she is connected to her body.
(d) She wants to do what her friends do.

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

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

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

9. Why has Marya decided to write her book?
(a) To create press for herself and the disease she faces.
(b) Will keep others from having her same experiences.
(c) To make herself feel better about her problem.
(d) To make new friends.

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

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

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

13. When Marya tries to dream big, what do her parents tell her?
(a) To be more realistic.
(b) To keep dreaming.
(c) She can be whatever she wants.
(d) All of her dreams will come true.

14. When she became pregnant, what didn't Marya know about?
(a) That she could get pregnant from sex.
(b) The birth control pill.
(c) Birth Control.
(d) Condoms.

15. How old is Marya when she begins to enter puberty?
(a) 9.
(b) 15.
(c) 8.
(d) 14.

Short Answer Questions

1. While doing research for this book, Marya spoke to _____________.

2. What does Marya begin to crave?

3. Why does Marya become extremely angry with a doctor?

4. Where else does Marya go to for her disorders?

5. What does Marya show the doctor?

(see the answer keys)

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