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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. During her ninth grade year, Marya's bulimia and drug use combine to cause what?
(a) No feelings at all.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Anger.
(d) Insomnia.

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

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

5. What does the introduction to the story show?
(a) Eating disorders are not real disorders.
(b) Most people have an eating disorder.
(c) Anorexia has serious consequences.
(d) Eating disorders are easily managed.

6. Where else does Marya go to for her disorders?
(a) Teen-Age Medical Services (TAMS) clinic.
(b) Chicago's Eating Disorder Clinic.
(c) Alcoholics Anonymous.
(d) Midwest Teen clinic.

7. What does Marya welcome about her stay at the hospital?
(a) Her new clothes.
(b) The food she gets to eat.
(c) Her new friends.
(d) The routine that she is given.

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

9. What does Marya's visit to Methodist Hospital foreshadow?
(a) Her life will end.
(b) She will never recover.
(c) She will be checked in again.
(d) She will kill herself.

10. In a ballet class, what does four-year-old Mayra feel about her own body?
(a) She fits in with them.
(b) It is different than the other little girls.
(c) It is awesome.
(d) She is not as coordinated.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Marya turns seven, where does her father plan to take her?

3. Why does Marya believe that being wealth rather than poverty leads to being thin?

4. What influenced Marya's eating habits?

5. What happens when Jane and Marya meet?

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