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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 does Mayra realize that she does not like to be touched?
(a) She was sexually abused.
(b) She does not like for people to get close to her.
(c) She becomes fearful when she is touched.
(d) She tries to dislike being touched because she yearns for it so much.

2. After moving to Minnesota, what does Marya often use to calm her nerves?
(a) She tries to pray to calm herslef.
(b) Spends time with her grandmother.
(c) She takes her mother's medication.
(d) She gets massages.

3. Growing up, how does Mayra feel in her body?
(a) She feels insecure.
(b) She feels good about herself until someone puts her down.
(c) She thinks its wonderful.
(d) She does not feel like one with herself.

4. Instead of focusing on getting better, what does Mayra practice while at Methodist's Treatment center?
(a) Her makeup skills.
(b) Her writing ability.
(c) Her reading skills.
(d) Her acting skills.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marya's visit to Methodist Hospital foreshadow?

2. What does the introduction to the story show?

3. What happens at therapy with her parents?

4. How do Marya's parents see her?

5. When looking through her old files, what does Marya think?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Marya writing this novel?

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

4. What causes Marya to be obsessed by sex?

5. What does Marya realize about the girl's folder?

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

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

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

9. When Marya is about to leave for her new school, what does she feel?

10. How does the novel begin?

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