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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. Since many patients are bulimic, what must the doctors keep an eye on?
(a) Patients gaining weight too quickly.
(b) Patients eating too much.
(c) Patients throwing up in the bathroom.
(d) Patients taking laxatives.

2. Who persuades her to tell her parents about the disease?
(a) Her aunt.
(b) A school counselor.
(c) Her therapist.
(d) A good friend.

3. Many girls in the Interlochen community supported Marya's ______.
(a) Desires to become a great actress.
(b) Ability to become an amazing writer.
(c) Wish to control her eating.
(d) Lack of confidence.

4. When Marya tries to dream big, what do her parents tell her?
(a) To keep dreaming.
(b) To be more realistic.
(c) All of her dreams will come true.
(d) She can be whatever she wants.

5. Before she leaves for winter break, what is Marya eating?
(a) Only fruit and vegetables.
(b) Vegetables only.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Cream, carrot sticks, celery sticks, and mustard.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Marya's mother thinks __________ is responsible for Marya's eating disorder.

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

5. What happens at therapy with her parents?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Marya writing this novel?

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

3. Why does Marya refer to this section of the book as "Take 1"?

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

5. What causes Marya to be obsessed by sex?

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

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

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

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

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

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