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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Marya has a breakdown, what does this mean?
(a) Her body has overloaded.
(b) Her mind is overloaded.
(c) Her body is breaking down her brain matter for energy.
(d) She will not survive long.

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

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

4. To feel better, what does Marya decide to do?
(a) Go completely anorexic.
(b) Eat less.
(c) Kill herself.
(d) Binge and purge.

5. What does Marya do when she looks in the mirror?
(a) Remembers that she should not eat.
(b) Wishes she had a boyfriend.
(c) Thinks she looks beautiful.
(d) Checks on how fat she has gotten.

6. What does Marya say that she hates?
(a) She hates her husband for judging her.
(b) Exercising.
(c) She hates to eat.
(d) Eating correctly.

7. Now, why does Marya think her problems started again?
(a) Being in her parents' house causes her to regress.
(b) Eating causes her to feel sad and guilty.
(c) She wanted them to happen again.
(d) She was too tired to fight.

8. What lie does Mayra create to leave?
(a) She needs to be with her parents to survive.
(b) She promises not to abuse herself anymore.
(c) She says she was sexually abused as a child.
(d) She says that someone in the treatment center has been abusing her.

9. What happens to her body during this time?
(a) She loses her memory.
(b) She loses 15 pounds.
(c) She gains 15 pounds.
(d) She has night sweats.

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

11. What does Mayra do at home while she is alone?
(a) Binges.
(b) Purges.
(c) Reads.
(d) Writes.

12. What happens the second weekend that Marya is left alone?
(a) She brings a stranger home and has sex with him all weekend.
(b) She eats everything in the house.
(c) She brings her boyfriend from California to see her.
(d) She brings a friend to stay with her.

13. How does Marya chicken out and not take advantage of her opportunity to get better?
(a) She hides behind the friends she makes.
(b) She refuses to leave her room.
(c) She drinks massive amounts or water and hides laxatives.
(d) She takes advantage of her new opportunity to grow.

14. Marya thinks she is a hypocrite while visiting her grandmother because ____________.
(a) She thinks her grandmother is right.
(b) She thinks her cousins are fat.
(c) She is warning girls to stay away from eating disorders when she is has one.
(d) She is trying to stay positive when she only has negative thoughts.

15. Where does Marya decide to go to school?
(a) Rice University.
(b) New York University.
(c) Washington University in St. Louis.
(d) American University in Washington D.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the act of feeling bones exciting for Marya?

2. The antibiotic that the doctor gives Marya _______________.

3. Who picks Marya up off the highway?

4. Although Marya is dating and making new friends at school, what happens at night?

5. For Marya, what was the need for the eating disorder?

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