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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Marya handling a job and school?
(a) She is pretty average.
(b) Poorly she is failing.
(c) She does not have a job.
(d) Very well. She has a 4.0.

2. What does Marya realize makes her strong?
(a) The feelings of power other people give her.
(b) Food.
(c) Determination to take control of the eating disorder.
(d) Playing with men's emotions.

3. How will Marya change her life soon?
(a) She will fall deeper into herself.
(b) She will willingly go back into treatment.
(c) She will be forced to go to another facility.
(d) She will not be able to change.

4. Why is the act of feeling bones exciting for Marya?
(a) She is on her way to recovery.
(b) It means she is dying, which she wants.
(c) She can feel her anorexic body returning.
(d) She is able to control herself and her weight.

5. Currently, what gives her a reason to not give up?
(a) Her daughter's life.
(b) Her entire family's help.
(c) Her new husband.
(d) Her mother.

6. When Marya practices anorexia, how does she feel?
(a) Like she is completely in control of her life.
(b) The happiest she has ever felt.
(c) Like she is losing control.
(d) Calm.

7. If Marya does not eat, what will happen?
(a) The other girls will be mad at her.
(b) She will starve.
(c) They will force her to eat.
(d) She will get very tired.

8. What does Marya realize that her eating disorders have done to her body?
(a) Made her more attractive.
(b) Made her unattractive.
(c) Made her look the best she has ever looked.
(d) Caused her to become stronger.

9. Whom does Marya live with while in California?
(a) Her step-grandmother.
(b) Her aunt.
(c) Her uncle.
(d) Her cousins.

10. Whom does Marya move in with when she turns eighteen?
(a) A childhood friend.
(b) Her friend Sybil.
(c) A random man she meets.
(d) Her boyfriend.

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

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

13. What does Marya realize will happen after she leaves the treatment center?
(a) She will begin smoking to stay thin.
(b) She will have to end her eating disorder.
(c) No one will love her outisde the center.
(d) She will be trapped with her parents.

14. When Marya goes to the hospital weighing 82 pounds, the doctor suggests that she try to gain weight. What does this show?
(a) He does not care about patients with eating disorders.
(b) He is not a good doctor.
(c) He sees Marya's problem as short term.
(d) The lack of understanding about eating disorders in the medical field.

15. Why does Marya begin to cry after she has aborted the baby?
(a) She realizes what she has done.
(b) She thinks she looks fat.
(c) She is afraid of her parents finding out.
(d) She realizes that her problems are still not solved.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose instructions are not being followed?

2. When Marya is six, what does she do with her life plan?

3. What has Marya realized about life over the years?

4. Marya thinks she is a hypocrite while visiting her grandmother because ____________.

5. When Marya's brother Paul hugs her goodbye, what does he realize?

(see the answer keys)

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