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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Marya realized about life over the years?
(a) She is unable to sustain life by herself.
(b) Being thin leads to happiness.
(c) Being beautiful will make things better.
(d) Being thinner, prettier, or different will not make life different.

2. What does aftermath mean?
(a) Consequences after an event.
(b) Happy events.
(c) Changing events.
(d) After the fact.

3. Who picks Marya up off the highway?
(a) Her parents.
(b) Her step-brothers.
(c) Her cousins.
(d) The cops.

4. What is the main part of this Interlude?
(a) Marya's memories of her childhood.
(b) Marya's memories of trying to fit in with other people.
(c) Marya's memories of recovering from an eating disorder.
(d) Marya's memories of meeting her husband.

5. When Marya's brother Paul hugs her goodbye, what does he realize?
(a) Marya is having tremors.
(b) How skinny Marya has gotten.
(c) Marya is numb to feelings.
(d) How fragile Marya seems to be.

6. What are some of Marya's rituals?
(a) Working too much and forgetting to eat.
(b) Washing her hands constantly and straightening her space.
(c) Only eating when she has performed certain tasks.
(d) Waiting until her parents have left to eat.

7. When Mayra moves out of her parents' house, what does she stop doing?
(a) Eating altogether.
(b) Studying.
(c) Going to therapy.
(d) Making new friends.

8. After she cuts all of her hair off, what does Marya realize?
(a) She is in control of her body.
(b) She hates herself.
(c) She has lost all control over her impulses.
(d) She can never change her mental state.

9. Even though she is still in recovery, what does she have to think hard about to break?
(a) Her crazed feelings.
(b) Her throwing up.
(c) Her manic thoughts.
(d) Her minimalist eating.

10. What is the tone of this Interlude?
(a) Tired.
(b) Regretful.
(c) Sad.
(d) Remorseful.

11. Why does Marya stop eating in the cafeteria?
(a) She hates the way people stare.
(b) She has no friends there.
(c) People start asking her if she is anorexic.
(d) She does not like the way the food tastes.

12. Why does Marya want to stay where she is?
(a) She likes her bedroom there.
(b) It provides her with a sense of security.
(c) She is afraid that she will be scorned elsewhere.
(d) She likes the friends she has made.

13. What is the smartest thing that someone can do for someone else recovering from an eating disorder?
(a) Not applauding their weight loss.
(b) All are correct.
(c) Not allowing them to hide their actions.
(d) Holding firm with them.

14. What keeps Marya eating?
(a) Her husband's will.
(b) The doctors from the hospital.
(c) Her dark passenger.
(d) She realizes what it is like to be a healthy human being.

15. Because of the seriousness of her condition, what must Marya endure?
(a) A straight jacket.
(b) Twenty-four hour surveillance.
(c) Cruelty of other patients.
(d) Random searches.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marya do when she looks in the mirror?

2. What does this person think about Marya's actions towards food?

3. What does Marya begin to lose her control over?

4. What does Marya say that she hates?

5. What does Marya tell her family about her recovery?

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