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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. During 1989, Marya is accepted at ________.
(a) An arts camp.
(b) An early program for a university.
(c) The Arts Academy of Michigan.
(d) Interlochen.

2. When Marya is ________ she becomes pregnant?
(a) 15.
(b) 20.
(c) 14.
(d) 12.

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

4. Why does Marya keep trying to develop her eating disorders?
(a) She wants to do what her friends do.
(b) They give her control over her body.
(c) They make her feel like she is connected to her body.
(d) They are the cool thing to have at school.

5. Instead of going to school, how does Marya spend her time?
(a) She goes to her grandparents' house.
(b) With her parents and work.
(c) Reading her books at home.
(d) Reading articles on the internet.

Short Answer Questions

1. After moving to Minnesota, what does Marya often use to calm her nerves?

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

3. To Mayra, what does sex do for her?

4. Marya believes that eating disorders are ____________.

5. In a ballet class, what does four-year-old Mayra feel about her own body?

Short Essay Questions

1. What actions affect Marya while growing up?

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

3. When Marya looks at her file, what does she see?

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

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

6. How does the novel begin?

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

8. What observations does Marya have concerning wealth and money?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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