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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 does anorexia represent to the girls in the clinic and the outside world?
(a) They are out of control of their bodies.
(b) They are concerned about physical looks only.
(c) You are able to deny yourself food.
(d) They are in control of their bodies.

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

3. Marya's mother thinks __________ is responsible for Marya's eating disorder.
(a) Marya.
(b) Her.
(c) Marya's grandmother.
(d) Her father.

4. In Marya's opinion, what does the American Dream prompt women to do?
(a) Hate themselves.
(b) Create unrealistic expectations.
(c) Lose weight to be successful.
(d) Deny weight problems.

5. What does Marya have to live with everyday?
(a) How she will react to her past.
(b) Her mistakes.
(c) What she did to her body in the past.
(d) Her soul.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Marya believe that being wealth rather than poverty leads to being thin?

2. How old is Marya when she begins to enter puberty?

3. How long does Marya wait to tell her mother she started her period?

4. Why does Mayra realize that she does not like to be touched?

5. During her ninth grade year, Marya's bulimia and drug use combine to cause what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What action gets the story moving quickly?

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

3. How does the novel begin?

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

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

6. What also leads Mayra do develop a strange relationship to food?

7. What becomes a coincidence for Marya when she goes to Interlochen?

8. When a friend finally tells a school counselor about Marya's problem, how does Marya feel?

9. As a child, how does Marya act when she is alone?

10. What causes Marya to be obsessed by sex?

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