2. Growing up, how does Mayra feel in her body?
(a) She does not feel like one with herself.
(b) She feels good about herself until someone puts her down.
(c) She thinks its wonderful.
(d) She feels insecure.

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

4. To Marya, what does life seem to be?
(a) She wants someone to care for her in life.
(b) Too difficult to live.
(c) Too long to live.
(d) A mistake for her to continue.

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

6. What happens when Jane and Marya meet?
(a) Marya becomes happier.
(b) Marya thinks that Jane is having a stroke.
(c) Marya believes Jane is having a heart attack.
(d) Marya becomes scared.

7. How old is Marya when she becomes a fully developed woman?
(a) 12.
(b) 11.
(c) 21.
(d) 15.

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

9. Why does Marya become extremely angry with a doctor?
(a) He reprimands Jane for her behavior.
(b) He is acting nonchalant.
(c) He is not listening to Jane.
(d) He fails to realize the threat Jane is under.

10. What does Marya realize about her lies?
(a) How obvious her lies were to her friends and family.
(b) How well she lied.
(c) Lies became a lifestyle.
(d) Lying created many of her problems.

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

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

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

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

15. While doing research for this book, Marya spoke to _____________.
(a) Kathi, the nurse from Methodist Hospital.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Another patient from Methodist Hospital.
(d) The doctor who cared for her at Methodist Hospital.