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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. While she was writing the book, what else changed in her body?
(a) Her body healed.
(b) She grew three inches taller.
(c) Her hair grew back.
(d) Her finger nails grew.

4. What does Marya tell her family about her recovery?
(a) She hopes to go home.
(b) She wants to go back to the center.
(c) She is getting better.
(d) She is getting worse.

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

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. Whom does Marya ask to tell her if she has gained weight?
(a) Her best friend.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her mother.

8. When Marya visits home, what makes her parents realize she is not getting better?
(a) They hear her throwing up in the bathroom.
(b) The pipes burst from all of her purging.
(c) She is caught in a lie.
(d) She is too thin.

9. What does Marya like about her body?
(a) She can feel the bones showing again.
(b) She can completely control it.
(c) It feels stong.
(d) She can use it to make her husband do whatever she wants.

10. What makes getting Marya's teeth extracted difficult?
(a) Her feelings toward all doctors.
(b) Her fear of the dentist.
(c) Her eating disorders.
(d) Her ambivalent feelings of being touched.

11. Does Marya think that eating disorders occur often in this country?
(a) No, only in a few homes.
(b) Yes, in homes all over America.
(c) No, only in poverty stricken areas.
(d) No, only in affluent homes.

12. What does she worry about?
(a) Getting too thin.
(b) Scaring her husband.
(c) Her body getting fatter.
(d) Hurting her family.

13. What does this person think about Marya's actions towards food?
(a) Crazy.
(b) Normal.
(c) Should stop right away.
(d) Easy to change.

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

15. After Marya returns to school and meets her new roommate, what does she weigh?
(a) 45 pounds.
(b) 72 pounds.
(c) 67 pounds.
(d) 50 pounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. By saying this, what becomes all right?

2. What keeps Marya eating?

3. Where does Marya decide to go to school?

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

5. What happens the second weekend that Marya is left alone?

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