Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Marya Hornbacher
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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Mayra when she became anorexic?
(a) 13.
(b) 25.
(c) 21.
(d) 15.

2. What was the lowest weight that Mayra got down to?
(a) 80 pounds.
(b) 100 pounds.
(c) 52 pounds.
(d) 40 pounds.

3. To live up to the rumors around her, what does Marya begin to do?
(a) Sleep with skanky boys.
(b) Talk back to teachers.
(c) Try to do better in schoolk.
(d) Act like a snob.

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

5. 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 does not like for people to get close to her.
(c) She becomes fearful when she is touched.
(d) She was sexually abused.

6. To calm herself when she is alone at home after school, what does Marya do at first?
(a) Calls her BFF.
(b) Talks to her dolls.
(c) Eats.
(d) Plays video games.

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

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

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

10. 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) Send her to her grandmother.
(c) Put her in an eating disorder treatment center.
(d) Send her to live with cousins.

11. Instead of going to school, how does Marya spend her time?
(a) Reading her books at home.
(b) Reading articles on the internet.
(c) With her parents and work.
(d) She goes to her grandparents' house.

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

13. What do the anorexics think of the bulimics?
(a) They treat them like family.
(b) The bulimics can never get as skinny as the anorexics.
(c) They pity them.
(d) They are weak.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is her current weight?

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

3. Who persuades her to tell her parents about the disease?

4. Anorexics believe that they can live ______.

5. How old was Mayra when she became bulimic?

(see the answer keys)

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