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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. As a girl, how did Marya react to the way she was treating her body?
(a) She hated herself for treating her body poorly.
(b) She became isolated from others.
(c) She showed no sorrow.
(d) She became depressed.

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

3. As a result of her eating disorder, what would often happen to Marya?
(a) She would bite her fingernails.
(b) She would cough up blood.
(c) She would often fall.
(d) She would hit others.

4. What is her current weight?
(a) 115 pounds.
(b) 150 pounds.
(c) 135 pounds.
(d) 105 pounds.

5. In a ballet class, what does four-year-old Mayra feel about her own body?
(a) She fits in with them.
(b) It is awesome.
(c) She is not as coordinated.
(d) It is different than the other little girls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tone is the Interlude written in?

2. Before she leaves for winter break, what is Marya eating?

3. To keep up appearances of normalcy, what do Marya's parents do?

4. Growing up, how does Mayra feel in her body?

5. What does Marya believe about her body?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the novel begin?

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

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

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

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

6. What action gets the story moving quickly?

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

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

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

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

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