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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. Why is bulimia more realistic than anorexia?
(a) Bulimia can be sustained for longer.
(b) Bulimia allows a person to give in to a body's desires for a short time.
(c) Bulimia is easier to hide.
(d) Anorexia makes other people nervous.

2. What happens at therapy with her parents?
(a) The parents begin to understand Marya's real problem.
(b) Marya realizes her parents are not to blame.
(c) Marya places the blame on her mother.
(d) Her parents fight and blame Marya.

3. What happens when Jane and Marya meet?
(a) Marya believes Jane is having a heart attack.
(b) Marya becomes scared.
(c) Marya becomes happier.
(d) Marya thinks that Jane is having a stroke.

4. Since her blood pressure might drop suddenly, Marya could have ___________.
(a) A seizure.
(b) A diabetic reaction.
(c) A heart attack.
(d) A stroke.

5. What is very rampant and obvious at Interlochen?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Sex and drug abuse.
(c) New beginnings.
(d) Eating disorders.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marya reveal to her psychiatrist?

2. To Marya, what does life seem to be?

3. What was the lowest weight that Mayra got down to?

4. How old was Mayra when she became bulimic?

5. Marya believes that eating disorders are ____________.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is very different about life in the clinic and how it might make a person feel like they have no privacy?

3. To add to her sex and eating addictions, what else happens to Marya?

4. What actions affect Marya while growing up?

5. What details and statistics does Marya give in this section of the book?

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

7. How else does the treatment center cause Marya anxiety?

8. What does Marya realize about those around her from her past?

9. Why is a school for the arts an easy place to hide an eating disorder?

10. As a child, what does Marya want besides a perfect body?

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