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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the anorexics think of the bulimics?
(a) They are weak.
(b) They treat them like family.
(c) They pity them.
(d) The bulimics can never get as skinny as the anorexics.

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

3. What doctor will not help Marya at Methodist?
(a) Dr. T.
(b) Dr. James.
(c) Dr. Travis.
(d) Dr. J.

4. Where does Marya convince her parents to send her?
(a) California.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) New York.
(d) Florida.

5. What does Marya show the doctor?
(a) Scars on her fingers and raw patch on the back of her throat.
(b) Her new outfit.
(c) Her emotional scars.
(d) Her body perception problems.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Methodist Hospital located?

2. Instead of focusing on getting better, what does Mayra practice while at Methodist's Treatment center?

3. How did Mayra's parents try to reward her?

4. What does Marya have to live with everyday?

5. What is very rampant and obvious at Interlochen?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Marya decide to switch from bulimia to anorexia?

2. What does Marya feel at the age of five and why?

3. What action gets the story moving quickly?

4. What actions affect Marya while growing up?

5. What causes Marya to be obsessed by sex?

6. What does Marya use besides bulimia to fill a void in her life?

7. What does Marya explain about anorexics and how their minds work?

8. When was the interlude to the book written?

9. What is a big reason that Marya likes to have an eating disorder?

10. As Marya turns eight, what happens to her body?

(see the answer keys)

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